The cross was, basically, state-sponsored terrorism, and it did indeed terrify people.

Pope Francis 39 s Sunday Angelus address on the Transfiguration offered these hopeful words Jesus rsquo way always leads us to happiness do not forget this Jesus rsquo way always leads to happiness There will always be a cross and trials in the midst but in the end it always leads to happin

What is your Lenten resolution or undertaking Are you giving something up or taking something on Does it involve food or drink Are you making any particularly elaborate efforts to give alms pray and fast nbsp I would appreciate reader input I feel as though my Lenten promises are too routine

Like Jesus, priests and religious must be the first to feel the obstacles to faith.

Christ's 40 days in the wilderness can raise more questions than it answers.

I found something very moving and even Ignatian in a reflection from Oliver Sacks composed as an anticipatory look back on his life spurred on by news of metastatic cancer An excerpt I have been increasingly conscious for the last 10 years or so of deaths among my contemporaries My generation

Enjoy this list of web sites, books, online retreats and more.

Professors John T McGreevy and Gregory Crawford chairs of the Core Curriculum Review Committee at the University of Notre Dame have published a letter in The Observer Notre Dame 39 s campus newspaper explaining the process underway for reviewing the University 39 s core curriculum The letter

While reading Carey Walsh 39 s Chasing Mystery nbsp Walsh is a professor of theology at Villanova University I came across this exposition of Moses 39 encounter with the burning bush which I found to be really illuminating Moses noticed something out of the ordinary the subtlety of the branc

Adapting top-down church teaching for the interactive Internet age