Dozens of participants at a retreat Dec. 13 reflected on “Dilexi Te,” the recent letter of Pope Leo XIV, on the need to ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection for the readings and Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Advent, Dec. 21, 2025.

The Bishops of England and Wales have produced series of brief daily reflections themed around hope for Advent.

This Advent season will be different from all the others we've experienced. Those familiar Advent themes of longing for God and waiting in hope take on a special meaning for us in the midst of the ...

“The liturgy of Advent nourishes our hope,” writes Cardinal Joseph Zen in Cardinal Zen’s Advent Reflections. Indeed! Read on for heartfelt and faith-filled reflections from the bishop emeritus of Hong ...

We radiate the life of Jesus to the world to the extent that we live with the conviction that we are divinely loved. Advent calls us beyond the false security of the merely virtuous person and into ...

After a critical illness, there can be a period of expansion, its impulse a starkly renewed sense of mortality. Such a time began for me in the autumn of 2022 ...

Editor's Note: EarthBeat Weekly is your weekly newsletter about faith and climate change. Below is the Nov. 27 edition. To receive EarthBeat Weekly in your inbox, sign up here. A year ago, it would ...