Sweet April, Cruel April: Finding Life Where the World Sees Death
COMMENTARY: April exposes the divide between a culture that fears death and a faith that finds life through it.
COMMENTARY: April exposes the divide between a culture that fears death and a faith that finds life through it.
COMMENTARY: A simple afternoon of sifting sand becomes a reflection on how sin slips quietly into the soul — and how grace restores what was lost.
Her moniker was as striking as her neon pink hair, and her sadness was a powerful homily.
COMMENTARY: In the frailty of old age and the reversals of family life, the cross of Jesus Christ comes into focus as the true measure of human dignity.
EDITORIAL: When the president of the United States says he doesn’t think ‘anything’ can get him into heaven, it’s a teachable moment — a chance to remind him, and ourselves, that Divine Mercy is greater than any human achievement.
COMMENTARY: How God uses tragedy, even evil, for good is the great mystery of our faith, but that is what we believe.
‘Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related in various ways to the people of God,’ says Lumen Gentium. ‘Whatever good or truth is found amongst them is looked upon by the Church as a preparation for the Gospel.’
Pope Leo XIV uses Van Gogh’s ‘Sower at Sunset’ to show how God’s Word is scattered freely — and how even fractured ground can yield a golden harvest.
Siegfried Sassoon’s late-life conversion and poetry offer a moving meditation on faith, suffering and the redemptive light of Christ.
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