No doubt Jesus could have done so, if he would, but he had his reasons for preferring the state of infancy.

There is a fairly widespread tendency found among Church leaders to speak as though our problem is sexual "abuse," not homosexuality.

Unless we have been shocked to our depths at ourselves and the things we are capable of, as well as at the failings of humanity as a whole, we cannot possibly understand the full import of Advent.

The most telling evidence of our need to grow in love may be our omissions when an opportunity for a smaller gesture of love presents itself.

But one thing God will not overlook, because he cannot tolerate it — namely, a divided love.

It should not be surprising that Christ in his infinite divine love for people would find a way to come into them, and that this unity is accomplished by an act at once spiritual and physical.

A reader in Western Michigan has advised me that Chesterton took a dim view of our North American Thanksgiving customs.

Christ takes hold of the man in baptism; he makes him grow and become an adult.

After one truly has died to sin, a kind of wonder is needed in order to make sin come back to life in us....

The leper complained to him, how could he believe in the love of God?