This Sunday’s Gospel, first reading, and psalm each testify powerfully to a time when the Gentiles will come from all corners ...

New Year’s Day Wünschung or “wishing” is an example of what anthropologists call “sympathetic magic.” Its practice is nigh ...

As a young Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown," Timothee Chalamet captures some of the iconic singer's enigmatic yet magnetic ...

Pope Francis prayed that the Jubilee Year may become “a season of hope” and reconciliation in a world at war and suffering ...

In this episode of , Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the 2025 Jubilee Year, beginning on Christmas Eve 2024 and ...

Inspired by his friend and mentor Henri Nouwen, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., ...

Even the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where every painting bursts with personality, suffers from what I would call ...

When I dropped him off for the first of three rehearsals, we passed a girl crying in front of a sheet of paper taped to a ...

If God can visit us, even when our hearts seem like a lowly manger, we can truly say: Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it ...

May we keep that experience present and alive, and “let every heart prepare him room,” eager to welcome the one who brings ...

Today’s passage highlights the role of family ethics. “God sets a father in honor over his children; a mother’s authority he ...

Advent, a time of quiet preparation, instead invites us to do the hard work of sitting with the darkness in the hope of ...