Mike Nelson, Catholic News Service

In the beginning, fasting was no big deal -- or at least it shouldn't have been. God gave Adam and Eve all they wanted, with...

In recent centuries, dozens (if not hundreds) of church documents containing millions (if not billions) of words address Catholic social teaching. But the essence...

How many of you, when asked, "How are you doing?", have replied, "I'm just waiting for this year to end"? We have experienced in 2020...

In our backyard is a solitary Liquid Amber tree (liquidambar) that from spring through summer produces a gorgeous bounty of green leaves, providing welcome...

"My son," says the Book of Proverbs, "do not despise the Lord's discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those...

"Peace be with you," Jesus says in the Gospel reading for Pentecost Sunday (Jn 20:19). Peace — as in harmony, or even as in a...

Forgiveness -- both seeking and offering it -- is one of the great challenges of our Catholic faith. But it is also among its...

It was raining hard the day our son, then a high school freshman, encountered a rain-drenched student he did not know but who, unlike...

What is knowledge? More specifically, what is knowledge in relation to our Catholic faith? Several years ago, I came upon St. Bonaventure's "Prayer for the...

Some awfully nice visions of the future are painted in this year's readings for the Second Sunday of Advent -- peace and justice, primarily. But...