Patty Locklear of Newport News remembers two moments in her life when she truly felt the undeniable, immediately palpable presence of God. The first was when she was about 5 years old, and saw a ...

There are many and various ways for us to approach and encounter God. There is no one means of prayer has a monopoly over our journey to God. God welcomes and blesses every sincere effort we make to ...

As preachers, we spend most of our time trafficking in words. We're constantly thinking about the words we're going to speak ...

Last Sunday we reflected on Jesus in a role that we don’t often give to Jesus in our reverence and worship of him -- Jesus as a prophet; Jesus as one who speaks on behalf of God and proclaims God’s ...

I do not think I can properly thank Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., for all he has done for me, for my brother Jesuits, for all of his students, for Catholic scholars and for Christians around the ...

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Sunday, March 2, is the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Sirach 27:4-7; Psalm 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16; 1 Corinthians 15:54-58; Luke 6:39-45. The first reading today says: “When a sieve is ...

Franklin Graham recently reminded us of something I’ve always admired about Charlie Kirk: he stood firmly on biblical truth, but he did it with compassion. He debated boldly, yet never with malice. He ...