One of the most difficult issues faithful people have to wrestle with is: If our supposedly loving God can create the universe, then why does he not prevent the most horrific of evil human acts? The ...

The great saint Therese of Lisieux once said, “The world is thy ship and not thy home.” A great heaviness seems to have filled the air in the wake of recent tragedies, violence and human frailty. It ...

Today, we are in the midst of a great renewal in Catholic higher education. Colleges and universities founded after the Second Vatican Council with the intention of cultivating a vibrant and faithful ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The plain, compelling truth that registers in the mind, like a splinter of glass in the soft tissue of the brain, is that man for all his efforts cannot find God. This is shocking ...

It’s hard not to ponder the horrific irony in the timing of this year’s Epiphany feast celebrated on Jan. 6, and the killing of a Minneapolis woman by ICE agents a day later. The Christian observance ...

True happiness comes from expressing love and goodness to others. And the ability to do this comes from finding our good, ...

The Jewish world lost a giant this week: A luminary and a visionary. We mourn the passing of Abner Goldstine, past president of Sinai Temple. The Talmud ponders the idea of how and where one can find ...