Is all of this revealed horror a kind of Pentecost for us? If so, God, please help us live through it.

I am middle-aged, happily married and the father of six children. Thankfully, the monastic guest program at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, is open to all.

Yes, your life is focused on God but centered by the people God gives you to serve.

Simcha Fisher: We are trying to persuade ourselves—and worse, to teach children—that life does not mean anything.

Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.

James Carroll’s article gives no hint that we are all, in fact, sinners in need of salvation; he argues that the only thing lay Catholics need to be saved from is Catholicism itself.