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When we go to church, we must focus on love and mercy, so that we can properly grow spiritually and not create any needless scandals.

St. Paul encourages us to “not be anxious about anything.” But how to attain such peace in our world so filled with peril and strife, as it surely was in Paul’s day, and in every chapter of history? Centering prayer can be a wonderful practice as we seek to let go of anxiety.

During the month of October, the Catholic Church celebrates guardian angels.  Guardian angels are instruments of Providence who help protect their charge...

Scripture tells us that God stands with the poor. Which is why those who stand with the poor can be said to stand with God.

Spiritual discipline should take particular needs into consideration instead of following over-generalized expectations and goals.

The immanent eschaton provides grace to the world; those who take it up can and will become a sign of the kingdom of God.

"Seven deadly sins... you might realize how much they are at the root of virtually all the problems contemporary society has to fend with."

Salvation must be understood as an act of divine live, not God trying to find a loophole through divine law.

Saint Benedict, founder of the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino and father of Western monasticism; the Rule that he established became the norm for monastic living throughout Europe. In 1964 Pope Paul VI proclaimed him the patron saint of all Europe. Learn more about Saint Benedict in this article.

We like imagining that a young, hopeless David killed Goliath. We need the fuller story.