‘The Marriage of the Virgin’ is shown in a fresco in St. Augustine Church in Covington, Kentucky. (photo: Nheyob / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) This Sunday’s Gospel offers some fundamental ...

Every Christian sooner or later has to ask the question, "Who was Jesus really?" And we ask this in our age in a special way because we are very historically oriented. We are modern, or perhaps ...

Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...

Find today’s readings here. “Let the dead bury their dead.” A phrase that has come to me at various times throughout my life, and it has always been an invitation to peace and freedom and clarity.

A stained-glass window in St. Edward's Church in Seattle shows Jesus, Mary and Joseph on their flight into Egypt. Credit: CNS/Crosiers Over the past 40 years, I’ve tried to read as much as I can on ...