'The avoidance of these funeral rites may short-circuit grief and healing,' bishop said.

Robert Wuthnow of Princeton University is now pretty much the dean of American sociologists of religion. Much like the late Rev. Andrew Greeley, Wuthnow is a very prolific author, penning a book about once a year.

On the Feast of the Annunciation, Helen Prejean, C.S.J., reflects on encounters with everyday annunciations.

In These Pages: From 1961 and 1966

Despite his popular image, Jack Kerouac was born and died a self-identified Catholic.

'The Testament of Mary' tells an intriguing though not always convincing story. It's main character—and to an extent its only character—is an old woman fretting about her past as she tries to get the facts straight.

Our experience, like that of many adoptive parents, began in heartache: the inability to conceive. Few experiences challenge faithful Catholics as much as infertility, which even in light of contemporary biblical theology still feels like alienation from God’s greatest gift.

Three theologians respond to the recent censure of Sister Margaret Farley for her 2006 book 'Just Love.'

We are missing a powerful and vivid symbol of the love of Jesus, writes Father James Martin. For the Sacred Heart is nothing less than an image of the way that Jesus loves us.

How can the life of Walter Ciszek SJ help us to understand what it means to find God s will in our lives Often when we think about God s will we think of trying to figure it all out What is God s will What am I supposed to do One of the themes of this book has been the Ignatian model of di