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Researchers disagree on how to define burnout, or if the phenomenon is really another name for depression. Helping people cope at work still matters.

While fasting is a part of the Great Fast, we must realize, fasting is meant to be a tool to help transform us into better persons.

St Moses the Black shows us how grace can transform us and make us greater than what our past would otherwise suggest.

How acedia became the enemy of our souls.

Western archaeologists as Muslim apologists.

Seven deadly sins, also called seven capital sins or seven cardinal sins, in Roman Catholic theology, the seven vices that spur other sins and further immoral behaviour. First enumerated by Pope Gregory I (the Great) in the 6th century and elaborated in the 13th century by St. Thomas Aquinas, they are (1) vainglory, or pride, (2) greed, or covetousness, (3) lust, or inordinate or illicit sexual desire, (4) envy, (5) gluttony, which is usually understood to include drunkenness, (6) wrath, or ang...

While I don’t want to adjudicate the Calvinist vs. Arminian debate here, I hope to shed some historical light on the general conversation and help us understand the overall debate a bit better.

Null / Petra Homeier/ShutterstockDenver Newsroom, Oct 2, 2022 / 00:00 am (CNA).On Oct. 2, the Catholic Church celebrates the memorial of the guardian angels. Guardian angels are instruments of providence who protect their charges from suffering serious harm, and care for their salvation.It is a theologically certain teaching that every one one of the faithful has his or her own guardian angel from baptism, and it is the general teaching of theologians that every human person has his or her own g...

“Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).Prayer is a Christian discipline and a tool for connecting with God. But even more, prayer is a gift fr...

Chosen by Andrew Arndt, author of “Streams in the Wasteland: Finding Spiritual Renewal with the Desert Fathers and Mothers.”