The fact is, no one—no church or priest, friendly gym or unfriendly one—can judge us without our cooperation.

While I will never support my father’s prejudice, I will forever be grateful for the fact that God could work through him to help me find my way.

The thrust of Bishop Erik Varden’s new book can be summed up in words preached on Pentecost Sunday: “We shouldn’t domesticate the Spirit. It comforts, but also devours.”

Pope Francis has said that going on pilgrimage is “one of the people of God’s most eloquent expressions of faith.” Why?

“Being close to the created world is a way of being close to the creator, and that’s why sciences played such an important role in the apostolates of the Jesuits,” said the director of the Vatican Observatory.

For his novels, memoirs, biographies and collections of short stories and poetry, Larry Woiwode is considered by some critics to be one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century.