Twenty-five years ago, I had a prayer experience that I return to annually at Advent. At the time, I was a novice Catholic ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- "Quietly come to the mediation circle." Erin Kimlinger lights a candle as new age music fills the room and her students take their positions in the circle, eyes closed and palms ...

At Pentecost, the Old Testament spring harvest festival characterized by offerings to God in the direction of the four winds, the Church is overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit coming in wind and fire. The ...

But there is an equally venerable tradition that the Church begins here, at the foot of the Cross. When Jesus commends his mother Mary, and his beloved disciple John, to one another’s care – behold ...

ROME — As the cardinals walk into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening to open the papal conclave, they’ll chant the plaintive prayer that their forebears have sung for centuries: Veni Creator ...

The personal notes of JPII published by former secretary Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, which the pontiff asked to be burned, reveal the depth of the Blessed's keen knowledge of the mystery of the ...