Midway through Sunday worship, I realized my sermon didn’t fit with Father’s Day. I had a Father’s Day prayer to use during the pastoral prayer, but it felt perfunctory to read the words. Truth is, ...

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...

As I was studying Genesis and the scriptures about Adam and Eve in the garden, I had many thoughts about our Heavenly Father, ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. I want to begin by reading you a new hymn just to stimulate your thinking. I don’t know the tune, but the text is as follows ...

I’m about to blow your socks off. If you want to hold onto your britches, pull them up tightly. Here we go: God is all-powerful and all-knowing, but God doesn’t have everything He wants. This is a ...

Lucifer’s daddy is home for the fifth and final season of “Lucifer”: the Tom Ellis-led series has cast Dennis Haysbert in the role of God. Lucifer’s (Ellis) father, God, “will appear throughout,” the ...

I’m sympathetic to the arguments for female pronouns. But the linguistic alternatives leave behind a profound truth. I have only ever had a good father. Timothy Beaty is gentle, wise, affectionate, ...

Before Jesus died, he established seven sacraments in the Church to shield us with the graces of the Holy Spirit. We can find many types or symbols of the sacraments in the Old and New Testaments, but ...

Worshippers join hands during the Our Father. Sunday Mass offers us several reminders on the importance of forgiveness, such as during the Our Father. (CNS photo/Jim West) A Reflection for Thursday of ...

I believe in God. Not that cosmic, intangible spirit-in-the-sky that Mama told me as a little boy "always was and always will be." But the God who embraced me when Daddy disappeared from our lives -- ...