At his first general audience during the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI initiated a new, year-long cycle of teachings aimed at healing the division between what Christians say they profess, what ...

U.S. bishops attend Mass on Nov. 14, 2022, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore at the start of their 2022 fall plenary assembly. (OSV ...

All the world’s faith traditions agree on one point: Love is the answer. No matter what the problem is – fear, anger, jealousy, sadness – love can assuage the hurt and build a bridge from a moment of ...

President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji has emphasized the critical ...

“The Teachings of Ptahhotep” is a book of philosophy, largely unknown in our own age, which is unfortunate. Scholars believe it is the oldest book in the world, predating the Bible, the Quran, ...

I am a gardener. I grow food from seeds and plants. I also work in settings of violence and disaster to assist locals in growing communities of peace and sustainability. These have been important ...

The Gospel of Kennedy was eloquent and simple. Before being elected president, John F. Kennedy went to Houston in 1960 to basically state that his Roman Catholic faith was irrelevant: "Whatever issue ...

Even as it banned public school and Bible reading, the Supreme Court stressed that objective teaching facts about religion was not forbidden by the First Amendment. Indeed, Justice William Brennan in ...