Focus

A conversion of heart for the planet’s sake

Mar 10, 2016

During Lent, Christians examine their conscience to consider the steps they can take to change their lives to better follow Jesus.
Patriarch Kirill with Pope Francis

Mar 04, 2016

After almost a thousand years that have failed to bring about any meeting between the head of the Catholic Church and the head of Russian Orthodox Chu
Religious and theological underpinning of Global Islamist Terror

Mar 04, 2016

There is no way a community, much less a global community like Muslims, can live all by itself, wallowing in its own backward thoughts, nursing its own victimhood.
Research on Muslim conversion reveals global trends

Mar 04, 2016

Daphne, a convert to Islam, works as a volunteer with a community group that supports Excellence, a private Muslim school.
Food for Thought

Mar 03, 2016

In a 2014 column for the National Catholic Reporter newspaper, Heidi Schlumpf said burying the dead was "like the lonely stepchild of the corporal wor
Showing love and dignity for others, even in death

Mar 03, 2016

Of the seven corporal works of mercy, only one is not found in Matthew 25:31-46: bury the dead.
It takes a community to bury the dead

Mar 03, 2016

Sometimes the dead are buried in nothing short of an appalling manner. Think of the Nazi regime's mass burials in the 1940s of countless Jews murdered
Food for Thought

Feb 26, 2016

In September 2015, Pope Francis put into action the corporal work of mercy that tells us to visit the imprisoned.
Helping those in prisons, seen and unseen

Feb 26, 2016

During this Year of Mercy instituted by Pope Francis, we're called to become extensions of God's mercy to others, particularly through the spiritual and corporal works of mercy -- acts of charity and love toward others.
Visiting the imprisoned

Feb 26, 2016

The prisoner's name was Federico, and he was sharing with his visitor the challenge of coping with society's attitudes toward those like him.