Pope Leo has said that “The Practice of the Presence of God” by a 17th-century Carmelite friar named Brother Lawrence is a ...

God never tries to overwhelm us. More than anyone else, God respects our freedom. God lies everywhere, inside us and around ...

The small marble table from a Roman-era home was adorned with carved acanthus leaves and the body of Dionysus. When I saw it in the archaeological museum of Thessaloniki, Greece, I broke down crying, ...

I am teaching a course at Seattle University this quarter called “Catholic Imagination in Art and Film.” It’s a big draw, and the students have been engaged and animated from the get-go. We are ...

It is a beautiful time of year. Coming off the joy of Thanksgiving, we have all of Advent right in front of us. It is time to prepare for our Lord. We prepare both for his birthday at Christmas and ...

If God were completely “other,” we could not relate to God because God would be different from us in every way. But Genesis assures us that we are made in the image and likeness of God. So even in the ...

The Catholic faith draws on the word of God. We know God and his truth not in the light of our own reason — created, finite and limited — but in the light of his Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:3). He ...

Walter Wangerin, a widely recognized writer on the issues of faith and spirituality, wrote: “The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow ...

Raised Presbyterian, neuroscientist John C. Wathey started to question his religious faith in his early teens. His book, The Illusion of God’s Presence: The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing ...

Ordinary Time can feel, after Advent and Christmas and Lent and Easter, a bit, well, ordinary. But many of us are also in the middle of summer. In many parts of the world that means warmer weather, ...