"Here is a group of men who witnessed something otherworldly and magical, but still they are being asked to leave everything for their faith. Even to give up their lives for it … there is still the ...

I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am ...

James Tissot, "The Appearance of Christ at the Cenacle," 1886-1894. (Wikimedia Commons) Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of columns by James Keenan, S.J., on contemporary issues in moral ...

Mary Magdalene who, despite popular culture, was not a prostitute, a noblewoman named Joanna and a healer called Salome were among his close circle. And Joanna, who had been married to an official of ...

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, raises the Book of the Gospels as he celebrates Mass in the presence of Pope Francis on the feast of ...