In the second century, St. Irenaeus coined one of the most famous phrases in Christianity: “The glory of God is man, fully alive!” “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo, Public Domain, courtesy of ...

Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm ...

Many people on earth seem disoriented. They are not sure from where they come, why they exist on earth, where they are going, and how they can get there. They want to see meaning in their life on ...

St. Thomas More is widely known as “a man for all seasons,” but he is best known for the final season of his life. A prominent government official when Henry VIII seized control over the church in ...

Shia LaBeouf, who plays the famous saint in Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio, conveys a real reverence and an inspiring love, but cannot redeem questionable choices. If the prospect of a movie about Saint Pio ...

When twenty-three year old Michelangelo Buonarroti arrived in Rome to complete his very first public commission, he was provided with a single block of marble, a one-year timeframe, and a sacred theme ...

Before art became such a widely-prized commodity, artists relied on commissions for their livelihood, and therefore their subjects were as diverse in theme as the requests of the commissioners.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted”. (Mt 5:4) In his commentary on this Beatitude in Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI writes that there are two kinds of mourning: “The first ...

No matter how far from the light we think we are, we should hold fast to the certainty that God will never abandon us. If you’ve never fallen in love with a literary character, I’m truly sorry — and I ...

We cannot master the art of dying unless we fear the death of the soul much more than the death of the body. We are born to die. This inevitable fact could lead to fatalism, although, more often, we ...

The influential and prolific French Catholic, Father Louis Bouyer (1913-2004) — was born into a Protestant family on the eve of World War I, and was briefly a Lutheran minister. But Christ drew him to ...

And, like all angels (and humans too), they were created to be in a loving unity with creation, with one another, and with God. We were all built for relationships. Unfortunately, the fallen angels, ...