There are times when it is tempting to do memorial tributes, and I’ve not done so. Hardly a week goes by when someone, somewhere, with a connection to the life of faith and to religious practice more ...

After two millennia, the church continues to peer back into the first centuries of the emerging Christian faith community to find its foundation. The church then, suffering persecution from without ...

The royal official from Capernaum gains Jesus' ear as much as the blind man on the road or the lepers. Desperation reduces us all at the threshold of faith. A sick child moves the official to seek out ...

There’s one pair of words I see in more email subject lines than any others: preaching and politics. “I love our church,” someone might write, “but I wish our pastor would stop bringing politics into ...

Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., gives the homily as bishops from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming concelebrate Mass in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica while making their ...

Why secularism has no answer for the fear produced by the COVID-19 crisis. Matt Woodley talks to Josh Moody, senior pastor at College Church in Wheaton, Illinois. Josh pointed out how his church had ...

Since our kids have been young, one of the highlights of our road trips has been listening to music. In the “old days,” everyone would bring a favorite CD or two on the trip so we could take turns ...

Photo by Gianna Bonello via Unsplash. (RNS) — Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-Eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape ...