The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka urged the government on Monday to crack down on Islamic extremists with more vigor "as if on war footing" in the aftermath of the Easter bombings.

God is being revealed to us every moment of the day. And so all these moments should make us say what Thomas says to Jesus, when we realize who it is who is speaking to us: “My Lord and My God!”

If there is a single artist working today who truly gets flesh, it is Jenny Saville.

Strange meeting this, the holes there in his hands and feet and heart.

I believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the first Easter Sunday. And I do not see that as any sort of parable or metaphor.

Most converts I know have an elevator speech on why they became Catholic. My Catholicism just sort of “happened.”