Five decades of vegetarian diet has changed me, for the better, I think: simpler, more natural, more connected to the smaller and larger life forms around me.

Should one become a vegetarian? The choice to become a vegetarian can be a prudent and religious one, founded in values not alien to our tradition.

Francis X. Clooney, S.J., offers reflections in this 1986 article on the life and message of Sri Ramakrishna on the 150th anniversary of his birth (February 18) and the 100th anniversary of his death (August 15).

We shouldn't get rid of the priesthood. We should reconnect it to the holiness of God.

It is in Christ—in all things—that we learn to see the world anew.

To study Ramanuja and his writings is to gain a glimpse of a Hindu tradition that is old and deep, learned and pious.

This “not” is no solution, whether it is hurled against Mr. Trump or against President Obama.

Two saintly Christians separated by only a few decades in time.

It is helpful and healthy to put aside the myth of sure and sunny progress. Our nation is a very good one, even if it’s never been the “greatest nation on earth.”

A desire to return to nature need not be labeled “un-Christian.” Ashes to ashes, after all.