I came to myself in a dark wood, For the straight way was lost (“Inferno,” 1.1). It is perhaps the primordial moment of the spiritual life, a sudden sense that we have lost the way and now must find ...

Readings: Isaiah 63:16B-17, 19B;64:2-7 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:33-37 St. Mark is so over Christmas. And the church is having none of it either, at least not this Sunday. To be fair, Mark does not ...

The Vatican publishing house announced it will release a book of some 130 homilies given by the late Pope Benedict XVI at private Sunday Masses -- 30 given while he was pope and more than 100 given to ...