Sergius (Serge) Bolshakoff, both the author and the translator of Russian Mystics, was born in Saint Petersburg in 1901 and died in retirement at the Cistercian ...

What is chrismation? Nicholas Denysenko breaks open chrismation as sacrament of belonging by exploring its history and liturgical theology. This study ...

Can a "legion" of demons convey a message? As Michael Willett Newheart asserts, a study of the Gerasene (Mark 5:1-20) and the demons Jesus cast from him ...

Theological discourse in the West has consistently valued the word over the image. Aesthetics, which discerns the criteria and value of the beautiful ...

Father Donahue's commentaries on the lectionary readings in Hearing the Word of God first appeared as a popular weekly column in America, covering Cycle ...

Catholic ecclesiology stands at the threshold of a new moment in the reception of the Second Vatican Council. The election of Pope Francis- coinciding ...

Father Augustus Tolton was the first identified black American ordained to the priesthood in the United States. He was born into slavery and escaped to ...

As a priest, archbishop, and president of the US bishops conference, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin lived a ministry marked by thoughtfulness, compassion, ...

The Earth needs our attention the best of our intellectual, ethical, and spiritual wisdom and action. In this collection, written in honor of Elizabeth ...

The First Five Years of the Priesthood reports what was learned from interviews with five hundred priests who were within five years of ordination and ...