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The Lucca Madonna, Jan van Eyck, 1436. Does it make you squirm? Here is the Virgin Mary, the Madonna, Our Lady -- in a state of undress. Motherhood is well an...

Recognizing that our Church was dying where she once thrived, Saint Pope John Paul II, in his 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, first introduced the concept o...

Sometimes when I pray, whether it be meditating on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary or doing Lectio Divina, biblical scenes colorfully unfold in my mind. I can ...

I recently read an article in the Guardian about a new fad: curating one’s death. Two concrete practices of the fad illustrate what I mean by ‘curating one’s de...

I was sitting in the library of an esteemed Jesuit university mostly minding my own business. Along came a professor and an undergraduate student. They sat down...

“Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?” That’s a question often asked by evangelical Christians. Answering ‘yes’ to this question means tha...

There’s something quite beautiful about dinner.  This past year, there were two memorable dinners for me, that of my parents’ wedding anniversary, and the dinne...