If you were asked, could you explain to someone what the gospel is? Do you have an explanation for, or a definition of what the gospel actually consists of? This is kind of important because in 1st ...

“[T]he Church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel.” Over the past 60 years, this famous line from Vatican II’s Gaudium et ...

In such a world, the pope argues those left behind are the poor and migrants whom he singles out for particular care. In a ...

Having read, written, taught, led retreats and lectured on the writing of Thomas Merton for many years, I am used to encountering a range of responses people have to the late Trappist monk and ...

"The truth is, empathy, diversity, equity and inclusion explode from the Gospels," says columnist Bill Leonard.

Evangelicalism is growing around the world, but nowhere more so than in Africa, where the increase has been “explosive,” says ...

Today’s Gospel is about mercy and forgiveness. Using the parable of the unforgiving slave, Matthew teaches some principles that are relevant today. The parable itself, however, is problematic, even if ...

At a September 2012 academic conference in Rome, Karen King, a historian at Harvard Divinity School, made a major announcement. She had discovered a fragment of papyrus that bore a shocking phrase: ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In this revival at Little Island, the singer and pastor Kim Burrell shares the stage with a team of queer artists. Kim Burrell joins a production that asks whether redemption is ...