John the Baptist’s life came to an abrupt and violent end at the whim of Herod Antipas, a cruel and lustful despot, but his call to repentance remains central to the Christian message. Unfortunately, ...

This Sunday’s Gospel reading offers us the perfect lesson for this second week of Advent. John the Baptist is preaching along the Jordan River, and people from all over Judea are coming to hear him.

From guilt to mourning and self-abnegation to resolve, Yom Kippur is the emotional climax of the Jewish faith’s high holy days—a holiday period that kicks off with Rosh Hashanah, the observance of the ...

It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...

MANILA, Philippines — The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has a message to those involved in corruption scandals: confess, repent, and restitute or return ...

we may love more than what has always been intact. improve a broken pot which after any flaw has been repaired, as championed in Japan. Repentance makes sins which we have committed like broken pots ...

WASHINGTON — The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are publishing a joint request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register July 24 ...

Rev. Jimmy Swaggart died Tuesday at age 90, but the clip that survives isn’t of him preaching or playing gospel piano. It’s the one where he’s crying. In 1988, Swaggart — then America’s most famous ...

If there should ever come a time that can truthfully be described as the “post-Christian” era, the reason for it will be that the Church no longer considers valid the things that are basic to ...

Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, sees a significant increase in church attendance, even surpassing Christmas and Easter. The author argues that President Donald Trump's policies have led to a "United ...

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The Chicago Daily News recently reported that Billy Graham, in talking about what Americans need most, stated: “It is absolutely impossible to change society and to reverse the moral trend unless we ...