Sister Mary Ann Walsh say her experience of cancer “is like a living wake.”

It is a Sunday morning in 1992 and I am ten years old and visiting relatives in the midwest We head to church pile into a pew sit stand and then sing the entrance hymn at Mass nbsp I happen to look up from my missalette just as two girls who are about my age walk up the aisle they are wearing

The struggle to form and sustain relationships is a universal experience. The struggle to understand the existence of black holes, less so. So it makes sense that The Theory of Everything, a new biopic about Stephen Hawking, the physicist and cosmologist, puts more focus on his love life than on the

Both saints and celebrities are often reduced to mere ideas or idols, avatars of their flesh and blood bodies.

When my cell phone rings early one sunny fall morning, I reach for it groggily, see that the call is from my mother and know that whatever she is about to say will be heartbreaking. I am still in bed in my pajamas, and my mom tells me that Marian Elizabeth has been born. Everything else my mother sa

With expanded coverage, 'America' aims to draw a fuller image of what church means.

The film is a beautiful reminder of the power of faith in things unseen.

One of the most notable characteristics of the Kigali Memorial Centre is its simplicity: a small fountain; a stone courtyard; some gardens with water fixtures flowing through them. Most striking, perhaps, are the plain, long, brown slabs of brick marking the graves of 250,000 of the men, women and c

Lessons from Inge and Jørn's winter getaway to the Arctic beach in "North of the Sun"

A more deliberate approach to sacrifice during this Lenten season