Any man can only be a father if he first has three basic gifts: the gift of being himself a son, the gift who is the mother of his child and the gift who is his child. Because he is gifted in these ways, a father is himself a gift....

Sometimes, the way you imagine someone or someplace to be turns out to be very different from the reality. You may evenconvince other people to expect someone to look the way you describe them. Sciencefiction films have developed a whole gallery of figures, both pleasant andterrifying, which might lead us...

The Catholic religion is a religion of the body as much as of the soul. While it is true to say that Jesus died to save our souls, it is truer still to say that He died to save the whole of our being, body and soul. We don’t just...