In his encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis shares a new insight into the mystery that is Mary: She is where creation receives and welcomes its savior. Reflecting upon a ...

I write to you while looking out onto a lake in southern Indiana, sitting in a cabin where my family vacations every summer. While I’m not a big fan of summer, it’s one of the few times all year the ...

Six lectures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger were almost lost forever. But now, they have been collected in a new Ignatius Press book, The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and Church. “It’s a ...

When we speak of Creation, it seems that we need to be aware of what might be called a hierarchy of creative value. At the top of the hierarchy is the Creator himself; then there is creation, which is ...

Before I returned to in-person mass, I would watch services from Magnificat.TV, a Spanish Catholic media network from the Franciscans of Mary. On the Solemnity of Mary this year, we watched a recorded ...

Pretty much everyone is familiar with the "Creation of Adam", even if they might not know that it is a section of a fresco painted by Michelangelo for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

Many religious types are staunch supporters of the thought that God created humans. They argue that everything created has a beginning, and God is that beginning, the cause of everything that exists.

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Does God really exist? This is a question that has stirred the human heart for centuries, crossing cultures, philosophies, and faiths. In today’s world, the debate is as alive as ever, with science, ...