Let’s face it, there are not many families like The Brady Bunch or Leave it to Beaver. There are no families with the perfect moms and dads and all the kids who never do anything wrong. We like to ...

In the second, we are far from God and need to be brought near. Both views are biblical. But with this shift—from a sin-sick ...

The Lord's Prayer is the prayer of the Church, confirming a person's identity as a beloved child of God, and reminding Catholics of the responsibility owed toward their brothers and sisters in Christ, ...

Jesuit Father John Gavin begins his book with an evocative image: Pliny the Younger’s eyewitness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug. 24, 79 A.D. This cataclysmic event buried the entire ...

Being that it is nearly Father’s Day, I would like to touch briefly on how dads should talk to our heavenly Father: Paul reminds us in 1 Cor 11:1 Niv, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of ...

During a meeting of major players in the Anglican Church, Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell suggested that the words of the "Our Father," Christianity’s most prominent prayer, may be "problematic" ...

On most days here at the America Media offices, we eat lunch together. What I love most about this time is that we have a truly intergenerational conversation; it’s not often that I sit around a table ...

I needed to hear it. Father Mike Schmitz’s talk, that is. “Wrestling With God in Scripture” was part of The Bible in a Year Retreat held over the weekend. I keep thinking about what the host of The ...

Remarkably however, the previous chapter gives us a quite different perspective: ...

Yesterday I heard an excellent homily at Mass. The Gospel reading (Mt 10:37-42) had Jesus telling his followers, with the uncompromising language he often used, that nothing comes before God. God ...