To be gentle is often equated with being passive, fragile, or easily overlooked - a liability rather than a virtue. But the ...

Addressing a very new and often willful Christian community in Galatia, St. Paul offered the community a tool of discernment ...

Look up “humility” and the online dictionary says “The state or character of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a low estimate of one's self; self-abasement.” Now look ...

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed …” — Wallace Stegner The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, was to set ...

Many years ago we had staying with us a clergyman to whom I listened with close attention. One day he spoke of someone as “having the rare grace of humility.” I think he must have meant that this ...

U.S. Coast Guard Academy Cadets raise the first wall on a Habitat for Humanity home Sept. 8, 2012. The on-going project is sponsored by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association class of ...

In our fiercely competitive society, achievement has become the top priority. We have become obsessed with personal success and will often stop at nothing to achieve it, even if it means breaking 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 ...

COMMENTARY: April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the election as pope of one of the most consequential ecclesial figures of the last 75 years. Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful ...

Whom would you trust more: an expert who seems to have all of the answers or one who admits what they don’t know? We have spent the past five years studying that question and the many ways people may ...

The 2026 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, running from Sunday 18 January to Sunday 25 January, is being marked by Archbishops John McDowell and Eamon Martin, the Church of Ireland and Roman ...

Cebu Archbishop Abet Uy urged the faithful to carry the spirit of Sinulog beyond the festival, reminding Cebuanos that ...