Jesus is the reason to stop concentrating on ourselves. Innumerable Christmas devotionals point out the humble circumstances of Jesus' birth—among shepherds, in a crude stable, with a feed trough for ...

Sunday, Sept. 1, is the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). Mass readings: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Psalm 68:4-7, 10-11; Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24A; Luke 14:1, 7-14. The readings today are a ...

Just over seventy years ago, in the autumn of 1948, several hundred people gathered at noon across seven consecutive Saturdays in Cambridge. The location was a lecture hall on Mill Lane, and they were ...

In sixth-century Europe, unprecedented chaos gripped the dying remnants of the Roman Empire. As Europe entered a period of political chaos and moral decline, a young Christian by the name of Benedict ...

We know that for miracles and some extraordinary divine interventions to take place for our very difficult if not impossible situations we can encounter in our life, we need to have a strong faith.

Humiliation for its own sake is masochism, but when it is suffered and endured in the name of the Gospel it makes us like Jesus. That was what Pope Francis said in his homily at the Mass at Casa Santa ...

Christians did not invent humility as a virtue, but Christian scripture and subsequent Christian thought put humility at the centre of the moral life in an unprecedented way. Image: “Christ washing ...

I can’t possibly do justice to Walter Russell Mead’s long, provocative meditation on the meaning of meritocracy, and the folly of meritocracy untempered by Christian humility. It begins with Mead’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...