Christians talk all the time about how God is their friend, columnist David Mills writes, “but ‘friend’ seemed just a way of saying ‘he loves you.’ Nice, but vague. … One of the great privileges of friendship is hanging out together without
In a new essay, Sara Perla addresses the worrying numbers of young people leaving the Catholic Church and what parents can do about it. She writes: “Everyone knows (I think!) that parents have the primary responsibility for raising their children in the
The humility of silence can help Christians sift through the loud and divisive noise in the world in order to listen to and discern God's will, Pope Francis told a group of Capuchin sisters.
Meeting with the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy
Sister Nancy Usselmann of the Daughters of St. Paul writes about her experience coming off of a week-long silence retreat. She writes: “In our noisy world, it’s a challenge to sit in the silence without any media, just oneself alone with God.
Silence, like words, can be a love language, Pope Francis wrote in a very short introduction to a new book in Italian.
"Silence is one of God's languages and it also is a language of love," the pope wrote in the book, "Don't
We live in a cacophonous world saturated with both physical and mental noise. God can be salvaged out of most social constructs, and God can be found in all things. If we are to find God, one another and even ourselves, we
In 2014, a study was released by the journal Science that concluded that people would rather subject themselves to physical pain than be left with only their thoughts for company. An online report by Nadia Whitehead outlines the premise of the experiment.
We live in a noisy world –and it’s not just audible noise. Take the small computer I carry in my pocket, for example, the small screen that tries to send me notifications for everything: the weather, what store near me has a