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I had to guess you’ve been so busy of late that you forgot that God, particularly in the form of Jesus the Christ, the one ...

Embracing divine Love as our true source enables us to overcome evil.

Alcoholism has its claws wrapped tightly around the souls of the small town I grew up in, here in the Amazon region of South ...

People have been left outraged after a video of a Romanian man breaking into and ransacking one of the Vatican's holiest ...

There are plenty of reasons to watch The Pitt — great performances, gnarly medical cases, and the incredibly effective ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

to give them a place where they can feel safe. Jesus doesn’t just live inside the walls of a church.” ...

This Valentine's Day, we used the question "What is love, actually?" as a jumping-off point as we headed out into the ...

Working at my church has me there beyond Sunday morning. Our building is always bustling with care, an ever-rarer respite in ...

All agree that the present written form of the Talmud was compiled after the time of Jesus ... so that they might accuse him. He said to them, ‘What man of you, if he has one sheep and it ...