As a young editor, I had the opportunity, along with several colleagues, to interview the late Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O.

The lectionary omits a sobering detail about this Sunday’s reading from the First Letter of Peter. The apostle was not speaking in general terms about suffering.

I recently made a pilgrimage to Salvation Mountain, a giant art installation far into the desert between Palm Springs, California and the Mexico border.

Jesus tried to explain to his downcast disciples on the road to Emmaus what had been fulfilled by his birth, death, and Resurrection, but it wasn't until the breaking of the bread that the truth finally sunk in.

In The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton’s classic memoir, the writer monk describes his first visit, in April of 1941, to the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky for a retreat.

"Awe came upon everyone" in the early Christian community, Luke tells us in the Acts of the Apostles. I see that same awe come upon my 4-year-old daughter whenever we're at Mass.

Scripture gives us four different versions of the Resurrection, a different account for each gospel. And yet all four agree that the first to discover the empty tomb was Mary Magdalene, by herself or with “the other Mary,” or these two Marys joined by other women.

Nothing expresses intense joy and thanksgiving more clearly and immediately than a shout of ALLELUIA! The word Alleluia comes from ancient Hebrew for "Praise Yahweh!"

The whole point of being a Christian is so that we will never have to stand on the side of Jesus’ torturers. If we are true to our faith, such depravity and inhumanity should be impossible for us.

Early in my marriage I had the horrible habit of becoming extremely drowsy whenever my wife wanted to deal with a difficult issue.