A new Christian school is preparing to open this fall following a permanent separation from Lansing Christian School.

The Very Rev. Gary Hall, a former professional joke writer, is still making us laugh in his new role as dean of Washington’s National Cathedral, an Episcopal institution. From Sally Quinn’s favorable ...

Shall I tell you what gives me hope? Besides the Our Father, of course, which has long been the perfect prayer, indeed, the indispensable prayer of hope for every Christian. How could it be otherwise ...

Pope Leo XIV closed the door at St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2026, just days into the new year. The act formally brought the Vatican’s Holy Year 2025 – designated as “Pilgrims of Hope” – to an end.

Chief Plenty Coups of the Crow Nation guided his people through the deep crisis brought by the invasion of the white man. Shortly before his death in 1932, he said to his biographer: “When the buffalo ...

The bus driver deftly dodged a group of bishops and gave plenty of room to an Indian theologian in a white turban. When the street ahead looked reasonably safe again, the driver turned to a newsman ...

From a Catholic perspective, clearly the biggest news story of the year was the death of Pope Francis in April and the subsequent election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope in the Church’s ...

Pope Francis gives his blessing during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Jan. 8, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) “May the light of Christian hope illumine every man ...

British and German troops meeting in No-Mans's Land during the unofficial truce. (British troops from the Northumberland Hussars, 7th Division, Bridoux-Rouge Banc Sector). (via Wikimedia Commons) The ...

In her endorsement of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Toni Morrison in­voked one of America’s most astute cultural observers: “I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void ...