Every wonder how many Our Fathers you have prayed during your life? If you’ve said it daily, maybe several times a day since you were a child, that adds up well into the ten thousands of times — for ...

Image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of PSR B1509-58 – a spinning neutron star surrounded by a cloud of energetic particles, about 17,000 light-years from Earth.. X-rays from Chandra in gold ...

Many religious types insist: Our God/gods cover the entire cosmos, including extraterrestrials. All are part of the same ultimate reality and moral order. Extraterrestrials are also children of the ...

Jesuit Father John Gavin begins his book with an evocative image: Pliny the Younger’s eyewitness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug. 24, 79 A.D. This cataclysmic event buried the entire ...

In his new book, "Our Father: Reflections on the Lord’s Prayer," Pope Francis offers his insights into some of Jesus’s most profound words. In this excerpt from the book, the Pope discusses the ...

Have you ever told a joke that someone didn’t get or think was funny? And then you tried to explain it and it was even less funny? Jokes are like poems: if you try to analyze them too much, they lose ...

His care and compassion come from a surprising variety of sources. We all have seven mothers, according to Scripture. Besides our birth mothers, there are at least six individuals or entities the ...

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...