Mike Nelson, Catholic News Service

This time a year ago, less than 20 miles from where I live in Southern California, a dozen people were killed and a dozen...

My wife tells a story about her dad and their special connection — a connection that transcended this life and one that defies a...

Near the end of "Jesus of Nazareth," the acclaimed 1977 miniseries, those who put Jesus to death are alarmed, to say the least, at...

"This is my chosen Son; listen to him." So what else is new, right? Are we not told regularly, throughout the liturgical year, to listen...

The Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist comprise the lengthiest components of the Mass. But neither can be fully effective --...

"I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth," said St. Therese of Lisieux, as noted in "The Final Conversations." And so she...

Tables and chess sets. Bookends and treasure boxes. All fashioned from good, solid wood, usually oak. Cut and shaped, sanded and smoothed, nailed and...

I can identify, a little at least, with the rich young man to whom Jesus says "sell what you have and give to ...

Corpus Christi. Body and blood. Real presence. When I was growing up and attending Lutheran Sunday school (until age 9), these terms were very unfamiliar...

The significance of relics in the church is well crystallized by the Gospel story of the woman desperate to stop her bleeding who approached...