40-day Lent devotional from a beloved spiritual writerAs for the field, so for the soul: The neglected heart will soon be overrun with worldly thoughts.
When it comes to reaching the new generation for Christ, are believers truly sowing for the future-or just reaping the benefits of past evangelistic efforts?
In what follows, I will be raising the issue of the role of the Congolese Catholic Church to promote an economic and social justice in relation to oil.
'I found it fascinating - it's an integral part of the history of Dublin that has been lost to time for too long' - Rick O'SheaA feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked there.
In a moment that transcends time and space, one woman's encounter with Jesus in the afterlife changes everything she thought she knew about faith and salvation.
A silly love story about a man and his wife and how they go about handling their new found abilities along their journey to helping out with the second coming of Christ.
It is a curious fact that many of the sources for the Presocratic and Stoic philosophers are early Christian authors; similarly, one can even find an echo of Parmenides in a Gnostic treatise from Nag Hammadi.
Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women.
Walk the Way of St Francis (Via di Francesco), a 518km (322-mile) pilgrimage route from Florence through Tuscany and Umbria to Rome, tracing the spiritual footsteps of St Francis of Assisi.
The Thought at the Back of the Mind is a plea for the centrality of the humanities as a vehicle of knowledge about ourselves and about the reality around us.
Fasting has become increasingly popular for a variety of reasons-from weight loss to detoxing, to the faithful who fast in prayer, to seekers pursuing mindfulness, to activists using hunger strikes as protest.
