(RNS) — The Scripture readings during Advent are a mix of comfort and challenge. On the one hand, the readings from Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 40-56) offer us comfort. The author was speaking to Jewish ...

Six years ago, two weeks before Christmas, our daughter-in-law was diagnosed with a very aggressive breast cancer. Her children were all still at home. She endured the chemo treatments with courage, ...

On Sept. 30, 2019 — the Memorial of St. Jerome, Bishop and Doctor of the Church — Pope Francis established that “the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time is to be devoted to the celebration, study and ...

My cousin likes to send me texts for each holiday celebration. They contain sweet messages with silly emojis of some kind. July 4, I started to read my usual holiday greeting from her: "Happy Fourth ...

Some of life’s experiences are often too difficult to handle, or so it seems at the time. When our life and our way appears dark and hopeless, we can reach out to a greater strength to sustain us. It ...

Pastor Ernie Reno has been in the ministry for nearly 50 years, mostly in the same church, but God used the last 25 years to prepare him for the worst event of his life. Ernie (as he prefers being ...

The Scripture readings during Advent are a mix of comfort and challenge. On the one hand, the readings from Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 40-56) offer us comfort. The author was speaking to Jewish exiles in ...

(RNS) — God does not comfort us so we can simply be comfortable. God comforts us so we can comfort others. (RNS) — The Scripture readings during Advent are a mix of comfort and challenge. On the one ...