2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (184+ words) Two tiny silver scrolls discovered in a Jerusalem burial cave in 1979 preserve the oldest surviving biblical text — predating the Dead Sea Scrolls by 400 years. Source: By Unknown author - Edited version of an image of the Kettef Hinnom scrolls, Public Domain…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (473+ words) Credit: Opus Dei - With Permission The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints is currently reviewing the lives of Tomás and Paquita Alvira, a Spanish couple who could be the next canonized married saints. In recent years the Vatican has received…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (747+ words) Credit: Alvov | Shutterstock Even a monk can realize that life has become a frenzy, from one activity to the next. What's to be done? As many of us transition back to school or as work gets busier this fall season,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (561+ words) If you want to know what motivated Mother Teresa and her radical life of self-giving, it all comes down to this specific Bible passage from the Gospels. Often in the lives of the saints, there will be a particular Bible…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (661+ words) A simple do-it-yourself approach can make it happen, and no, you don't have to be a Scripture scholar! “In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them.” [Catechism of…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (412+ words) The Greeks called it kalokagathia — beauty and goodness as a single ideal. John Paul II called it self-mastery. Both were describing the same human truth. I have been running for a couple of years now, training for a 20-kilometer race…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (591+ words) Although perhaps not perfectly theological, the Prom analogy is simple, and something teens (and adults) can grasp immediately. Rarely do teens invest so much effort into preparing for something. As a high school theology teacher, I always start my classes…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (940+ words) We need to risk human unpleasantness rather than retreat to mechanized simplicity. Perhaps the first step is acknowledging that it often isn't very easy. If there is one thing Pope Leo XIV really wants Catholics to do in the face…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (373+ words) Credit: Shutterstock | lara-sh The plot next to the Mater Ecclesiae monastery now follows principles of care for creation set out in Laudato Si’. Inside the Vatican Gardens, next to the Mater Ecclesiae monastery where Benedict XVI spent his last years,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (352+ words) Credit: Christian Horz | Shutterstock Influence goes both ways, so we need to ask ourselves some honest questions, both about how we are influenced and the influence we exert. Cycling is an example of a positive act of mimicry within our…...