Perhaps the best way to begin praying is to stop praying. To set aside our prayer lists and surrender our personal agendas.

One’s almsgiving is like a signet ring with the Lord,’ says Sirach 17:22, ‘and he will keep a person’s kindness like the ...

COMMENTARY: Lent is the perfect time to rediscover the Act of Contrition and the divine mercy it calls us to embrace.

For most of the rest of us, prayer is a duty, an obligation, a difficult and even more frustrating task with a distant, even ...

The spiritual life is an arduous task. God cloths himself in mystery and so the process of discerning his will and knowing ...

Six saints and blesseds have offered these profound reflections on how to live this time of Lent authentically through ...

When I won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023, I received a personal letter from Pope Francis, very moving, written by ...

The Texas Senate has passed a pair of bills to introduce religion in public schools. One would require the Ten Commandments ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

Mitsutake Ikeda In a historic moment for South India, the region's first Peace Pagoda was officially inaugurated on February ...

Archbishop Richard G. Henning celebrated his first St. Patrick's Day Mass as archbishop of Boston at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston on March 17, the feast day of the Archdioce ...

The latest from Columbia poet Gabriel Fried explores thin places between expressions of gender, between faith and doubt.