When God calls us out from our homes, we go as strangers to lands that are strange to us. Yet, God goes ahead of us and stays with us, challenging us to always trust in him. Here is the experience of ...

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As we look toward Thanksgiving and Christmas, I realize that 2025 is quickly coming to an end, and so is the Jubilee Year of Hope. What will be our take-aways from this special time of grace? Hope ...

During the Mass, Father Patrick Mullan, chaplain for St. Francis Deaf Catholic Church and Gallaudet University Campus ...

We can pray in petition, praise, thanksgiving or repentance, but underneath every kind or style of prayer, the purpose is ...

Even with something as simple as praying and reading the Bible every day, it’s a challenge even to those who are determined ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The oppressive tributes and the fearful conquest drawing near gives Jonah good reasons to desire Nineveh’s fall. And God himself is angry at Nineveh: “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,” God tells ...

"This past weekend was quite different. I felt overwhelmed and stretched thin by some tough situations. I’m not ashamed to ...

Catholicism has been sometimes described as a very materialistic religion. Why? Because Catholics take created reality seriously. Karl Rahner, S.J., once called Christians “the most sublime of ...

Imagine all the love you've experienced in your entire life, from parents, spouses, friends, family — and then multiply it by a thousand. That's the kind of love experienced by people who've had ...