Take root in the plants with your limbs.” (Rig Veda or “Book of Hymns”). Tantrism pushed even further the integration of the human body into the hidden fabric of the universe and offered a ...
All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord, and all your saints shall bless you!” – Psalm 145:17, 21 As we gather in ...
A passage from the Book of Revelation, a prophetic book of the Bible filled with rich symbolism, illustrates the difficulty one may encounter when reading Scripture. A survey commissioned by the ...
Sunday, November 10 to Saturday, November 16, 2024. Here are the Bible Book(s)/Chapter(s) to read each day this week. Note that the readings are based on the New American Bible.  Day 155 – Sunday, Nov ...
A record number of books were banned in districts across the country during the 2023-2024 school year, according to a free speech organization. By Alexandra Alter Jodi Picoult’s “Nineteen ...
The Vatican has unveiled a new mascot for the Catholic Church in the hope of engaging young people - a cartoon character named Luce. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican's chief organiser for ...
As the holiday season gets underway in November, book publishers are gearing up with seasonally and thematically appropriate releases. You’ll find your standard feel-good generational tales like ...
There is a battle raging in the Catholic Church, with some believing ... Such is the disruption under Francis that a new book by a veteran Canadian Vatican watcher ponders whether the Pope is ...
Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ commission for child protection said Tuesday, raising concerns about a ...
The book—and Cather’s later Shadows on the Rock, about a young woman in French Catholic Quebec in the late 1600s—seemed so thoroughly Catholic in its sacramental themes and carefully fair ...
Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a ...
By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome The Vatican and China have agreed to extend an agreement aimed at ending a decades-old power struggle over the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in ...