Jesus doesn’t need angelic help, and he doesn’t need our help. Yet he confers such dignity on us — and on the angels — that ...

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Excerpted from “Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World.” Author C. S. Lewis was an atheist for the first three decades of his life. Then, after much soul searching, he concluded that God ...

COMMENTARY: A glimpse at the development of the constitution ‘Dei Verbum’ makes clear the role of Scripture and Tradition as the supreme rule of faith. Pope John XXIII celebrates the opening Mass of ...

Across disciplines and traditions and over millennia, Western humanities have been working out ever more concretely the implications of their theological origins. The Homeric epics are a crucial ...

Is the world the site of diaphany where one encounters the 'transparency of God in the universe' in a Teilhardian fashion, or should one give credit to von Balthasar's insistence that the cosmos can ...

If you think poetry and maths are poles apart, think again. About the sixth century, Indian poet and mathematician Virahanka codified the structure of Sanskrit poetry, formulating rules for the ...

Muslims celebrate the revelation of the Qur’ān by deepening their engagement with it, fasting from dawn to dusk and intensifying their prayers during the final nights — such acts foster humility, ...