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By William B. Ingram Following three days of meetings at the Cathedral of Christ the King, the bishops of the Charismatic ...

And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all ...

Beauty and justice are birthed from a sanctified imagination and lived out while walking with the Spirit. They are the soil ...

John Piper recently urged Christians, especially teens, not to ask how close they can get to sin like mild drunkenness but ...

Pope Leo XIV greets a woman religious during an audience with members of the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great, the ...

I made out the beginning of the phrase, “Señor mío…” At subsequent Masses, I listened more carefully, and heard the full ...

During an audience on Monday of religious sisters belonging to several orders, Pope Leo XIV told the group that rootedness in Christ allows them to “do things they perhaps never thought they ...

For the Pontiff, this is a sign of the power of God, 'which manifests itself in the midst of the rubble of destruction.' ...

Pope Leo XIV urges religious sisters in Rome for their General Chapters or the Jubilee to stay rooted in Christ and to ensure ...