It all comes back to this: to wait upon the Lord. The promise has been made. And now, we wait.

The Christian must strive to live, and even to die, as Christ did: generous in adversity, vulnerable in love.

For the mystic—and in heaven—time falls away. Frustration gives way to fulfillment.

"The Bible: A Book for the Family" is this year’s theme for Bible Week, building on the Synod of Bishops on the Family and Pope Francis's visit to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.

The positions taken by the Roman Catholic Church on divorce, remarriage and communion are not self-evident, but the product of numerous interpretive moves.

The last day of life is like those that precede it. Either we open ourselves to the mystery or we withdraw into the citadel of the self.