"In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’ ...

Christian thinkers have long wrestled with what it means to claim that the God of Jesus Christ is for us. In a dense, probing work of constructive theology, Matthew A. Wilcoxen asks: What if humility ...

Humility does not open a path to God. It allows us to exit ourselves. A helpful lesson in this regard comes from American history. Craig Fehrman’s This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and ...

“Humility is above all God’s Way” and, it “must be the way of Christians”, Pope Francis said in his homily at mass on Palm Sunday in St Peter’s Square, attended by some 100,000 pilgrims and followed ...

The Holy Father added during his Palm Sunday homily, humility is ‘a way which constantly amazes and disturbs us.’ Pope Francis leads procession of palms in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, March 29.

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Christmas demands faith, because Christmas is a mystery. Our reason cannot succeed in trying to understand how God could ...

Father Gabriel Corraya of Dhaka, newly elevated to the title of monsignor by Pope Leo XIV, reflects on priesthood, humility, and service as the Catholic Church in Bangladesh marks Holy Thursday.

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him,” said Voltaire. The question arises: what sort of a God do we want? The vast majority of men and women want God who is a sort of a ...

Upon reading the Book of Ruth on Shavuot a couple of days ago I was struck by two traits exhibited by the main protagonists, Naomi, Ruth and Boaz. The two traits are humility and trembling before God.

A quote from Pope Francis: “If God prefers humility it is not to debase us: humility is the necessary precondition for being lifted up again by Him, so as to experience the mercy that comes to fill ...

Jesus’ gruesome death didn’t happen randomly or accidentally. He knew very well what was coming his way. Many times I’ve stared at Titian’s famous painting “Christ on the Way to Calvary,” which ...

Two years ago, the bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Texas, Andrew Doyle, was troubled. His chief worry: that the Episcopal Church’s war over homosexuality was fated to distract the faithful from the ...