'God's wisdom comes quietly alongside us.'

One challenge for readers of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, the collection of Blessed Teresa of Calcuttas letters, is to distinguish among the terms darkness, dryness, desolation, doubt, disbelief, depression and despair - the seven Ds.

No book of the Hebrew Scriptures is more beloved than the Psalms. Many Christians carry with them a book containing the four Gospels and the Book of Psalms. But no book of the Hebrew Bible is regularly bound by itself, except the Psalms. The psalter is treasured. Pious Jews often carry a small volum

Further Questions Thank you for Gerard F. Powerss Our Moral Duty in Iraq (2/18). It would be worthwhile for leaders of our country and our military first to reconcile with those people whose loved ones we violated. This would, Ihope, lead to some real discussion about Iraqi autonomy over its resourc

Thomas P Sweetser S J has written a readable helpful follow-up to his The Parish as Covenant Keeping the Covenant Taking Parish to the Next Level builds on his foundational theology and spirituality of parish as articulated in the previous book but adds to that vision many new practical ste

Geraldine Ferraro commented that Barack Obama has attained the heights of his political success only because he is black. The comment made me sick to my stomach.

The political world is reeling from the explosive revelation that New York Governor Elliot Spitzer was a client of a very pricey prostitution ring The news sent shockwaves across the political landscape and you could almost hear the schadenfreude on Wall Street Those who had felt the censorious we

As an example of how the media sometimes can get a story wrong or at least confuse things unnecessarily witness the story from the March 8 issue of L Osservatore Romano which included an entirely sensible interview with Bishop Gianfranco Girotto an official at the Apostolic Penitentiary on

This June our excellent parochial school is being closed after a hundred years My live in granddaughter Perry went there for the last eight years and has just moved to the local public school I am grateful that she had the advantages of Catholic education that sociologists have described these sc

A visit to a new NativityMiguel school