A child of the poor gathered his companions around him and led them to a statue of Mary, before which ... It is pleas­ing to tell again in song Jesus' hidden life. Jesus grows up in hid­den ...

The first chapter of the Gospel of Luke records a meeting between Mary, the mother of Jesus, and an angel, a messenger from God. Until the Angel came to her, Mary was not a significant biblical ...

awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus ... Mary as "the mother of my Lord." Elsewhere in Luke 1, the title "Lord" refers to God, e.g. "an angel ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

Why did Jesus tell people to make offerings in the Temple? Why did Paul call himself a Pharisee? The Bible’s answer might surprise you.

As we recognize that God’s spiritual and harmonious view of existence is what’s true, the discord that seemed so real dissolves.

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Robbins, who called La Conner in Skagit County home, was a bestselling novelist whose early books defined the 1960s for a ...

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Stephen A. Smith found an ally in Howard Stern after Smith’s comments about Serena Williams earned major backlash. Stern, 71, ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...