Herod's Morbid Curiosity
In our world, ordained ministers and other pastoral workers can make present the fragrance of Christ's closeness and his personal gaze.
In our world, ordained ministers and other pastoral workers can make present the fragrance of Christ's closeness and his personal gaze.
Sometimes when I am attempting to get to the heart of some mystery of the Faith, I try to picture life without it.
A friend sent me a collection of cartoons about the "smartphone" mania.
In our part of Manhattan there is no summer slowdown, and if there is demographic slack, any void is filled by the large number of tourists.
"The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie."
On September 13, 1224, on the mount of Verna, Saint Francis received the stigmata, the marks of Christ's five wounds in his flesh.
A museum curator showed me a contemporary copy of the papal bull "Inter Caetera" by which Pope Alexander VI divided the world between Spain and Portugal with a meridian.
"Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday Life" is a collection of highlights from some of Pope Francis's most personal homilies.