"Lord, Teach us to pray." Did the disciple who made that request have any clue about the intimacy of asking someone how he prays? Our prayer exposes the heart of our relationship with God: who we ...

Which way is transfiguration? Must I go through temptation to get there? How do I get from wilderness to garden, from cross to crown? First of all, because the terrain is trackless and windswept, ...

Today is the feast of the Assumption of Mary, the commemoration of Mary being “taken up body and soul to the glory of heaven” (“Munificentissimus Deus,” No. 40). In the Gospel reading from Luke, we ...

Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor is seen in a Sept. 22, 1959, photo, sitting on the steps of her home in Milledgeville, Ga. Elizabeth Coffman, an associate professor of film and digital media at ...

Most people who become followers of Christ – nearly 85 percent, according to the International Bible Society – do so between the ages of 4 and 14. That means that as parents, we have a brief, ...

In the Jewish tradition, a midrash refers to the ouevre of stories used by rabbis to explain the Hebrew Bible. They are stories that fill in the gaps left behind by the Scriptures. Home Alone has ...