"Somewhere beneath all the ritualized, too often trivial, practices of my childhood Lent, there was the feeling that this day for which we were preparing was of great importance."

Robert F. Drinan's unscheduled retirement

We might think the battle for Christmas is over words. But the struggle is waged at a far deeper level of our lives.

Teilhard was striving for sanctity by working in science, and this effort would require a new understanding of what it means to be holy.

From July 17, 1999

Susanne M. Batsdorff, niece of Edith Stein, reflects on Catholic-Jewish dialogue on the occasion of Stein's canonization in 1998.