They entered the spring-time of my life like the composite rhythm of a poem. To my surprise ... from the July/August nights in 1968. Many in consecrated life also failed the evangelical test.

The setting was exquisite, an utterly EVEN for a woman whose life was filled with drama ... was working at Mother Teresa's famous mission, consecrated the ground. The little group was comforted ...

He wrote silly, sometimes vulgar poetry ... test of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated ...

Herr Fuchs is at his most convincing when he wrestles with the problems of ambiguity and inauthenticity in modern life and in the ... sadistic teen-ager into a consecrated preacher filled with ...

“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...

When one pattern of religious life dies, seedlings of yet another, equally vibrant and potent, can emerge from its ashes. Christians call this “the power of the Resurrection." For most others, however ...

Recently, the diary of a young North Korean soldier killed in Ukraine came to light. What attracted most commentary was the revelation that he and his unfortunate colleagues were being used, essential ...

Consecrated life represents a profound expression of Catholic faith, rooted in the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Bishop Dennis Sullivan and Coadjutor Bishop Joseph Williams take a photo with jubilarians after the Mass celebrated Feb. 1 ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...