With sleeve tattoos, weightlifter’s muscles and a foul mouth like a truck driver, Nadia Bolz-Weber ensures she is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea.

Tattoo-covered Lutheran pastor brings gospel message from different perspective

Like too many baby boomers, I probably spend too much time on Facebook. The other day, a friend posted a short video from a Lutheran pastor in the United States with this simple note: “This makes a lot of sense.”

Left: Jesuit Father Thomas Reese attends an Easter prayer breakfast in the East Room of the White House in Washington 2015. Right: Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl looks over papers June 13 during the USCCB's annual spring assembly in Florida.

Fr. Thomas Reese: Pennsylvania grand jury report is a new low for Catholic Church

Awful, disgusting, horrifying, sickening — one runs out of adjectives in describing the actions of abusive priests chronicled in the just-released Pennsylvania grand jury report.

Francis Campbell: Follow God’s direction at life’s crossroads

Francis Campbell: Follow God’s direction at life’s crossroads

By the time this scribbling reaches publication online and in print, our long summer journey will be more than half completed.

Trappist Father Thomas Merton, one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century, is pictured in an undated photo. Devotees of the monk, who died in 1968, have planned various observances of the 100th anniversary of his birth, Jan. 31.

Glen Argan: Renewal enhanced in ‘a deserted place’

Jesus told His apostles who had just returned from a missionary trip, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while” (Mark 6:31).

Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: Food and family creates a perfect recipe

Vanessa Santilli-Raimondo: Food and family creates a perfect recipe

Pesto tastes like summertime to me.

On July 22, 1968, the 1906 St. Boniface cathedral was damaged in a fire, destroying many features including the rose window. Only the facade, sacristy, and the walls of the old church remains.

Fr. Raymond J. De Souza: Where are the missionaries who will evangelize today?

Thanks to the excellent coverage by Salt + Light Television, I was able to follow the “Catholica 200” celebrations in St. Boniface, Man., marking the bicentennial of the arrival of the first French missionaries in the Canadian West. 

Moses and Aaron meet Pharaoh and Aaron turns his rod into a snake.

God's word on Sunday: Adversity is a test of faith

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug. 5 (Year B) Exodus 16:2-4, 12-16, 31a; Psalm 78; Ephesians 4:17, 20-24; John 6:24-35

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes by Lambert Lombard, 1505–1566

God's word on Sunday: Miracles happen with total trust in God

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 29 (Year B) 2 Kings 4:42-44; Psalm 145; Ephesians 4:1-6; John 6:1-15

Canada is among the world’s top 10 greenhouse gas polluters.

Cathy Majtenyi: Ontario strikes big blow against a healthy world

It’s the timing that makes Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s cap-and-trade announcement particularly ironic.

The new songbook will replace the Catholic Book of Worship III, which was released in 1994 but became outdated with the revision of the Roman Missal and other liturgical texts.

Peter Stockland: New Catholic hymnal nothing to sing about

Proof that the Church has no shyness about irony is affirmed by news that Canada’s new Catholic hymnal will be unleashed during Lent two years hence.

Rob Brehl's late dog, Lucy.

Bob Brehl: Gun violence and the dog days of summer

This column started about all the gun violence in Toronto this summer, but then it changed. For some reason, thoughts moved from hatred and death that guns bring to unconditional love and affection that family pets offer.

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