Faith & Spirituality

How many tickets do I need to get into heaven?

(Photo: Adobe Stock) For my last day of elementary school, my entire class went to Chuck E. Cheese for a pizza party. I remember saving...

God helps us answer the question: ‘Who am I?’

Who is God? And how does his identity impact my life? These are big questions that most of us don’t think about often, if at all. But the...

The only thing to fear…is not being in awe of the Lord

Part of the tradition of the Catholic Church is meditation on “Fear of the Lord” as a gift of the Holy Spirit, based Isaiah 11:1-3 and...

The good news of God’s fatherhood

family, childhood and fatherhood concept - happy father and little son playing and having fun outdoors over autumn park background...

Love, revealed: Understanding the central mystery of the Trinity

By Elizabeth Klein Assistant Professor of Theology at the Augustine Institute If you are a lifelong Catholic or if you have taken...

Like Father, like Son: Ten Ways Jesus Christ Reveals God’s Identity

In the Old Testament, God’s people of Israel knew of God as father, but only in a general sense. For instance, since God is creator of...

I AM Who Am: God is greater than anything we can imagine

Even when Thomas Aquinas was young, he was known often to ask, “who is God?” As he grew into one of the Church’s greatest theologians, he...

Seven keys to finding God in nature

By Chris Lanciotti Today, many of us often hear the phrase that one “finds God in nature.” While something in that near cliché phrase...

Christ, the ballast of Christian community

(Photo: Adobe Stock) On the morning of August 10, 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa set sail from its harbor in the port of Stockholm. Built...

What happens in Germany, revisited

By Francis X. Maier Writing on the quincentennial of the Reformation and its parallels with emerging problems in the 21st-century German...

What today’s world can learn from the Guardian of the Redeemer

While it’s fitting and perhaps even providential that Pope Francis proclaimed this year the Year of St. Joseph, the truth is that St....

St. Joseph through Mary’s eyes

Detail of high altar by Sieger Koder in St. Joseph's Church in Bad Urach, Germany There are two people who could best provide a...