On Wednesday Pope Francis said having total faith and trust in God means recognizing that he always knows and wants what is best for us, even if it's hard to accept because it doesn't align with our ...

The three spiritual pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Most of us try to give up something for the liturgical season that precedes Easter, and also try to be more generous. But how ...

Discerning the will of God means being able to listen to one's own heart and recognize the Lord's presence in the unexpected events of life, Pope Francis said. Like St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose ...

Sometimes, our spiritual experiences can’t be put into words. I tackled my first English essay in college with enthusiasm, a thesaurus, and a naive disregard for page limits. The paper came back with ...

For some decades now it has been a vogue to disparage the confession that the Scriptures are the very Word of God with the claim that since the Bible is made up of “propositional truth” it cannot ...

Archbishop William Temple gives us his definition of worship in his book “Nature, Man and God.” Temple writes, “Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience ...