John Banville is surely the only crime novelist in recent memory who has won the Booker Prize and is regularly rumored to be ...

Repentance and reconciliation have a role to play in Lent as well as Advent. But the distinction between the two seasons ...

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President-elect Donald Trump will attend the upcoming reopening ceremony for Notre Dame Cathedral in ...

The Advent season prepares us for the incredibly humble journey of Jesus’ birth. This carol provides another dimension of ...

Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; The calf and the young lion shall ...

Focusing again on the fundamental Christian beliefs outlined by the Council of Nicaea almost 1,700 years ago can help ...

Despite the popularity of pilgrimages to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, located in Wisconsin, the apparition ...

When the homes were built on the swampy Dutch landscape, they were held up by underground wooden poles. Over time, the wood ...

God loves us deeply and tends to every one of our needs. May this Advent be a season in which we prepare our hearts to ...

Yet this can be something of an illusion. Here’s a classic truism: There is no better time to be alive than the present. The ...

Dorothy and her friends’ journey is one of discovery and gratitude, an external quest that reveals internal riches.

Laudato Si’” and its implementation seem to have stalled in the church. We need to revivify our efforts—and to recognize the ...