Spirituality

Scripture for Life: The Easter season offers us the opportunity to let ourselves be perplexed and even to doubt as we wait for the good news to saturate our souls.

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election expressed his desire for "a church that is poor and for the poor."

Mary Magdalene's sorrow turns to bewildered joy when Jesus says her name. As I sit with her sorrow-turned-joy, I think of the people I love, who could call me back to myself just by saying my name. 

In gratitude for Pope Francis' life and leadership, let us recommit to become who we are meant to be and embrace the new life that is ours this spring.

Latin Americans observed that Pope Francis, the first pope from the new world, brought to the Vatican a new way of talking about God, lifting up causes and convictions that they shared.

Scripture for Life: The resurrection is not a mystery to be clung to, but a practice to develop in ever new and deeper ways. 

On a return to Ephesus 35 years after a life-shaking tragedy, Editor Emerita Gail DeGeorge revisits vows she made to herself, and ponders the promise of eternal life.

A hidden chapter of Christ's Passion has come to light through the mystical revelations of Servant of God Sr. Leonia Nastal, a Polish nun whose spiritual diary offers harrowing details of Jesus' imprisonment before the crucifixion.