D uring a recent silent retreat, I came across a poem by Symeon the New Theologian, an 11th-century Eastern Orthodox monk.

Pope Leo XIV at his general audience on Wednesday said sadness and disappointments can give rise to unexpected joys and hope when one discovers that Christ “walks with us and for us” in life.

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The conversion of an original Jesus freak. Some of my friends—those of us who used to say things like, “Don’t trust anyone over 30”—now joke with each other that if you remember the 1960s, you weren’t ...

Let me take you to a warm April day when a little boy on the street stopped me in my tracks and changed both of our lives forever. I was volunteering with the Sant'Egidio community, which serves the ...

They say that no good deed goes unpunished. Today's reading from Acts depicts the irony of the human mindset at just about any time in history. What leads us to react negatively to someone who is ...

Playing Jesus meant a world of torment for Jim Caviezel, who stars in Mel Gibson’s ferociously violent “The Passion of the Christ.” Caviezel dangled nearly naked on a cross in bone-chilling winds ...

My neighborhood, Boston‘s South End, is notable not only for its many intact blocks of stately Victorian townhouses but also its numerous community gardens. Within a small radius of my house are ...