HOW should we understand our need for unity? Perhaps we can get some ideas from the priestly prayer of Christ before he entered into his passion and death. In it, he addressed the Father: “I have ...

One of the marks of a truth is that one can arrive at it from different starting points, and, as a result, that truth has explanatory power over many different phenomena. For example, in my physics ...

When we look closely at the epics of different religions, we find some common principles expressed in diverse ways. One such is ‘God is within us’. In the Christian Bible, the New Testament has the ...

This week, our family celebrated a special milestone: my 9-month-old grandson, Thommy-boy, said his very first word — “Baby.” Moments like that remind us how wonderful life can be even during tough ...

This icon of the archangels is one of four new icons at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in New Westminster, British Columbia. The parish is working to sponsor the families of the ...

Sunil Kumar is currently member, managing committee, Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi. An engineer and project manager trained at Vickers Armstrong Engineers and Babcox & Wilcox, UK, he is a former ...

For instance, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whom he regarded as a pious fraud; indeed, going so far as to write an entire book, dripping with disdain, for his subject. Or the late Pope St. John Paul II, ...