Perspective

(Photo: Unsplash) “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.” —...

(Photo: Lightstock) This is a summary of talks I have given on a “postpartum spirituality,” which technically means “after birth.” Having...

(Photo: Unsplash) "Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when...

A call to prayer from a 9-year old who just wanted to know the answer to one question: ‘Did the girls who died go straight to heaven?...

Mosaic detail of Christ Pantocrator from the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Anniversaries help us to...

Ascension by Francisco Camilo, c. 1651. Background added. (Photos: Public Domain/Unsplash) There are many reasons to regret the transfer...

(Photo: Lightstock, edited) In the twelve months leading up to next year’s American semiquincentennial, the tale will frequently be told...

Pentecost by Jean Restout, c. 1732. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) It is easy to be caught off guard by Pentecost. If I don’t...

(Photo: Lightstock) We are one human family, yet we are born as members of a particular nation. Christians are reborn as members of...

What Adam and Eve's Original Nakedness in the Garden of Eden Reveals About God’s Plan and True Intimacy, According to the Theology of the...

(Photo: Unsplash) I’m certainly no financial wizard. One look at my bank account will verify that (please send help?!). But with my...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the Solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical...