Far from being a moment of loss, the Ascension opens up a joyful reality: Christ is closer than ever, not limited by space or time.

Challenge today is to extricate the historical, fully human Mary from theological baggage heaped upon her over centuries ...

In an upper room above those streets, the Book of Acts tells us, disciples of Jesus, recently crucified, cowered. Yet, filled with Holy Spirit, they burst onto those streets, sharing the gospel of ...

Lauded in the world’s two largest religions as the mother of God’s Chosen One—for Muslims a great prophet and for Christians ...

The ancient teaching of the Council of Nicaea, held 1,700 years ago this May, affirmed that Jesus is fully God and fully ...

The new archbishop’s hands were shaking as he showed the document to the faithful as part of the ritual. Melinda Henneberger ...

Daily thought Peter said, “I have no money, but what I have I will give you! In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!” Peter took the man by the right hand and lifted him up. At once ...

When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that ...

Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster and the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Rowan Williams, discuss fresh perspectives on ...

I believe that God does not make mistakes; if He says all things shall work together for my good in this month, so shall it ...

The evolution of Hell was complex—from Hebrew Sheol’s shadowy stillness to Dante’s fiery abyss, which shaped Western views of ...