Rome for me is a heady place where it’s easy to lose your spiritual bearings.

Whatever else the virgin birth may be, it doesn’t represent the domestication of the divine.

What, though, if we constructed a boundary between our time and God’s, and made time stop?

To submit to the baptism of John is to admit that we don’t always get it right, in a myriad of ways.

The pope is turning 80 this Saturday.

Sao Paulo Cardinal Odilo Scherer said his predecessor "gave his life to God after having generously dedicated it to his brothers in this world."