We Sheas tend toward the hefty end of the spectrum. Some of that is genetics. Some of it is how the family tends to relate to food and (fails) to govern its appetites. Sin has a generational aspect to ...

The day of King Charles III's coronation is here – and it comes with all the pomp and pageantry you'd expect, as well as the private moment during which Charles was anointed behind the Anointing ...

One of the things that has always given the Gospels the ring of a truthful recounting of historical memory by eyewitnesses is the story of the anointing at Bethany. What is interesting to me are these ...

King Charles III’s coronation day is here (Picture: AP) The Coronation of King Charles III is finally here, with the monarch and Queen Camilla being crowned in a formal ceremony at Westminster Abbey, ...

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship, attends a Nov. 15, 2022, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of ...

One of the most heartbreaking realities of the COVID-19 crisis is that patients are suffering and dying from the disease in sterile, empty hospital rooms, far from any of the people they love. Because ...

All eyes will be on King Charles’s coronation in London this weekend, as 2,200 in-person guests and millions around the world tune in for the official crowning of the British monarch at Westminster ...

This day we call Palm Sunday, or in our odd, ecclesial grammar, "Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion," always gives us too much to take in. It begins with Jesus’ entry into the holy city of Jerusalem ...

I’ll tell you an anointing story. A priest told it to me. He had been in a war. The war, he called it. We didn’t think there would ever be another war after that war, he said. Too bad we were wrong ...