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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 ...

What does God look like? Kids ask that with equal measures of innocence and expectation. What a disappointment to hear that God is invisible! If we ask Google, we get a wide variety of images: mostly ...

Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate, Health and the Apostolic Blessing! The splendour of truth shines forth in all the works of the Creator and, in a special way, in man, created in the image and ...

Our salvation is just an appendix in Christ’s redemption of all creation. One of the most quoted Bible verses of all time is John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, ...

Some wonder if God really exists, because they cannot physically see him. What do people think about the invisible God? Some people may think that the evidence of God that is found is just a ...

On his Wednesday General Audience, held this morning in St. Peter's Square in the presence of 20,000 people, Pope Benedict encouraged the faithful to “continually model our image on that of the Son of ...

One of the oldest images we have is a third-century fresco from the catacombs depicting Jesus as a young Good Shepherd. At the other end of the spectrum is a sixth-century Orthodox icon of Christ the ...