If you have ever watched a Hollywood awards program, you are probably familiar with the fascination many have for the fashions worn by the stars. As each takes a turn in the spotlight on the red carpet, the question inevitably arises: “Who are you wearing?”
With the season of Advent, a new liturgical year begins, and the praying assembly is called to look back with gratitude on all that has been and forward with hope to what will be. In looking back, we are to ponder what J.B. Phillips has called “the towering miracle of God’s visit to this planet” (“The Christian Year,” Good News: Thoughts on God and Man, Macmillan, 1963).
Book review: We live in a world where scientific minds continue to unravel ideas in a way history has never seen. Amid this, faith and religion risk becoming trivialized.
Commentary: The Asian bishops will make history when they meet next month, but odds are, no one will know anything about it.
Bishop Justin Welby was named Nov. 9 as the archbishop of Canterbury, primate of the Church of England and leader of the Anglican Communion.
For a while, boundaries in art have been fading. Life and art, the world and the way we imagine it interpenetrate one another.
Fr. Charles Curran reflects on his appreciation for Redemptorist Fr. Bernard Häring, who would have been 100 on Nov. 10.
Column: Do those who grieve for and those celebrate the election results have anything in common? Are we headed for the next civil war?
The Cardinal Newman Society is probably best known for its role in controversies over speakers or course offerings, conflagrations it often helps ignite.
Learning from the burgeoning charter school movement is one way to solve the current Catholic school crisis, said education experts at a recent half-day seminar.
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