Our nation's annual Thanksgiving Day reflects not only our gratitude for heaven's blessings (notably food and peace), it also prompt...

Someone asked me recently, "Father do you think the American Church will break away from Rome, that we're headed for a schism?...

Does history repeat itself? Philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952) famously remarked, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemn...

Mysticism is making a come-back. There are scores of new books describing this ancient but often negelected phenomenon, and most of them ar...

Swiss theologian Hans Küng's latest book is titled What I Believe . He wrote it, he says, in answer to one of the most persistent questi...

It seems to me that women are taking on leadership roles in a way and to a degree unprecedented in history. You can hardly speak of today...

I am reading Kathleen Norris' The Cloister Walk , a account of her extended visits to a Benedictine monastery in Minnesota. One conseque...