'If I am doing good, it’ll be mostly by getting out of the way of God.'

Properly defined, feminism is a philosophy that embraces basic rights for all human beings without exception.

Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton.

The word vocation, originally used to indicate lives directly consecrated to God through priestly or religious service, has recently come into use in a much broader fashion. To expand vocation to include the whole range of ways that lives can be given to God is a fair and sensible extension. After a

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