I gaze upon the crucifix at Holy Mass, contemplating the image of Christ’s broken body, poured out for the Church, as he is truly present — his body, blood, soul and divinity — on the altar. A sense ...

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church. If the Bible is the most-published book in ...

Formal membership figures might rise and fall. But God’s desire for his people never wavers. In the ancient world, Jacob worked for Laban seven years to marry his daughter Rachel—and then another ...

There are many understandings of what church means and entails. For the purposes of this column, I will focus on just two: ...