Two young boys were overheard discussing Easter. One told the other he shouldn’t have to go to church on Easter because it was a holiday. Such is the perspective of those who do not understand the ...

Christ "is the image of the invisible God." That idea has inspired thousands of representations of Jesus of decidedly wide-ranging degrees of artistic quality. One of the oldest images we have is a ...

Christ’s resplendence in the Transfiguration says more than we think. Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous man who ever lived. His image is everywhere. But what did the God-Man from Nazareth ...

Hebrews, the New Testament epistle written to a first-century congregation of Jewish Christians in the Roman Empire, stands as a pillar of Christian theology. In the first four verses, the author gets ...

Ralph Ellison’s novel depicts the quest for personal dignity in a society determined to deny it. “I am a man.” On February 12, 1968, over two hundred Black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, ...

Just before Christmas, Daniel Berrigan and I spent an evening with Franciscan priest and teacher Richard Rohr at the new Catholic Worker house in Albuquerque, N.M. A blizzard swirled outside, and the ...

As devotion to the Holy Face finds renewed interest, a new documentary connects ancient relics, modern miracles, and a timeless longing to see the face of God. ‘The Face of Jesus’ chronicles the ...