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Carlo Carretto was an Italian monk who died in 1988. For many years he lived as a hermit in the Sahara Desert, translated the...

“Sometimes all you can do is to put your mouth to the dust and wait.” That’s a counsel from Lamentations, and while perhaps not...

Some of my favorite authors are agnostics, men and women who face life honestly and courageously without faith in a personal...

Recently, reading Commonweal magazine, I was struck by this line by Jerry Ryan, a Little Brother of Jesus: “I have lost contact...

Huston Smith, the renowned commentator on world religions, submits that you should not judge a religion by its worst...

An American humorist was once asked what he loved most in life. This was his reply: “I love women best, music and science...

There’s an axiom that says: Roman Catholics tend to adore Mary while Protestants and Evangelicals tend to ignore Mary. Neither...

Our culture doesn’t give us easy permission to mourn. Its underlying ethos is that we move on quickly from loss and hurt, keep...

Anyone who has ever watched a fire knows that at a point the flames subside and disappear into smoldering coals, which...

The Gospel of John presents us with a very powerful and rather earthy mystical image: As John describes the Last Supper scene,...

Recently a student I’d taught decades ago made this comment to me: “It’s been more than 20 years since I took your class and...

One of the richest experiences of grace that we can have this side of eternity is the experience of friendship. Dictionaries...