For the first three centuries after the death of Christ, martyrdom came to be seen as the perfection of the Christian life.

Bonaventure understood the spiritual journey as movement toward deeper union with God. Grief can become part of that journey.

As noted earlier, metabolism is taking things in and converting those things into growth or decline. In both our physical and ...

This vision of the human person is driving today’s understanding of identity. Authenticity is equated with radical ...

To be “with Him on the mountain” means recognising that we, too, are called to radiate Christ’s love. The Catechism teaches ...

Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you ...

Loyalty and disloyalty are familiar ideas. Employees who keep company secrets are loyal. Friends who gossip behind your back are disloyal. It is easy to give examples of loyalty. But it is often ...

While we often scavenge the world of literature for pertinent, practical self-help books to assist in restoring us to a state of physical, mental and spiritual health, one of the most overlooked but ...

“Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature,” Jesus tells us in Mark 16:15. Are you obeying His command? “Gospel” is a word that most of us have heard countless times in our ...

It was there that he finally learnt that the trouble with the world he had run away from was not ‘other people’, as Sartre ...

Years and years ago, I took a volunteer position at our parish. I had been impressed by our pastor’s drive and orthodoxy, leading his congregation and its school to a state of dynamic, authentic ...