A new book offers some helpful principles for creating the home that all of us desire, without suggesting that the same solutions work for every family. Here are some of the author's ideas.
At his first general audience after the summer break, the Pope drew a line between prayer as encounter with God and meditation as a tool for personal well-being.
Making the Sign of the Cross can be less about habit and more about choice. If we put some mental effort into it, it can be the strategy for our whole lives.
The Holy Spirit desired James' letter to be included in the New Testament and serve all generations of Christians for teaching and inspiration. But the author is not James ... or James.
St. María Micaela, born into privilege, experienced tragedy and founded a religious congregation to help women who were struggling.
Besides gaining broader knowledge and new skills, we might even manage to slow down time.
While many of us spend time away from home during the summer, we still tend to bring with us all the causes of our anxiety.
Here's an idea for a 30-second answer that will not only inspire, it will also fulfill a Gospel invitation. And crafting this answer will help you more than anyone else.
Fifteen centuries before the smartphone, the monks of Egypt named a spiritual illness that strikes hardest in summer heat. Their diagnosis is uncomfortably accurate.
Sister Alessandra Smerilli will lead the Vatican's integral human development office, which promotes human dignity in all forums around the world, from health care to migration to environmental issues.
Today’s young people indulge in a “pop culture of death.” But they are not unique in this. Why the fascination throughout history and today?
The new Liturgy of the Hours from Ascension Press features the work of a modern sacred artist rooted in Ratzinger's take on beauty.
We have forgotten how to stop. Augustine has some surprisingly practical advice.
Mother Cabrini had a deep devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so much so that Jesus himself "exchanged" hearts with her.
Long before therapy, before the novel, before the examined life became a dominant cultural ideal, a 5th-century bishop in North Africa mapped the territory we now call the self.
From the world’s tallest church, to a film about refusing to look up, to migrants met face to face, Leo XIV’s Spanish motto asks far more of us than a glance at heaven.
Filipinos celebrate the 128th independence day on June 12. Insights from an archbishop show how to make it count.
