A quote from Pope Francis: "The Church cannot be other than the sacrament of God's mercy in the world, in every time and towards all humanity. Think of how many saints there have been throughout ...

To mark St. Valentine’s Day, Catholic thought leaders and writers discuss the sacrament and what they have learned sharing in this sacred union between husband and ...

True symbols, Barth maintains, are sacramental, for both sacraments and ... Coleridge’s poem The Eolian Harp that Barth repeatedly quotes. By it, Barth argues, Coleridge invokes the ...

We change the subject. For Christians, conversations about this topic (even and especially the ones in the car on the way to school) should take place, implicitly or explicitly, in light of Christian ...

Then I had children. Sacramental initiation was no longer an abstraction for me. My son, my first born and beloved one, was baptized. His dad was a theologian and his mother a pastoral minister.

To politics, economics, and to the life of the Church: most especially to the steady regularity of her sacramental life, which many Catholics see as the anchor of consistency amid a world of chaos.

Christian “friends” quietly cut Kai out of their lives. In Christianity, the word “sacrament” often refers to a particular rite, like baptism, that provides a tangible sign of God’s ...

Each of the more than 30 students had written him a letter about their thoughts heading into confirmation, one of Catholicism’s seven sacraments, often seen as the “sacrament of maturity.’’ ...