Monasticism first emerged as a lay movement focused on cultivating a deep and radical love for both God and neighbor.

Nadya Williams, a classicist and historian who walked away from academia to be a stay-at-home mom, recently spoke with OSV News’ Charlie Camosy about her new book “Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity.”

Here comes Lent. God gives us this season not just to reflect on Jesus’ life, suffering, and sacrifice for us, but also to offer us a chance to lean on him, to walk with him, and to find ways to open ourselves up to his love.

The ongoing lesson of the crucifix is that sometimes disturbing things are permitted so that something great might be enabled to occur.

Catholic social teaching is one of the tools given by the church to guide us in living this call. Founded in Scripture and developed further through a series of papal documents, the social teaching of the church provides direction for how we are to live with our neighbor.

Much of our “practice” of Catholicism is cooperating with God’s grace so that the Word is made flesh in us.

It is true that actual wheat must be used in a valid celebration of the Eucharist, but there are still ways to receive holy Communion even as a Catholic with a severe gluten intolerance.

Family is the way that we learn to love, serve and humble ourselves over and over again to care for Christ in our midst.

Here in the United States, the threat of facing mass deportation due to the absence of proper documentation does not have to be faced alone.

When we experience the beauty of a sunset and that yearning in our soul, we may grasp for just a moment what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God.