These two books have in common only the fact that they are concerned with the Eucharist; other than that they are written from very different perspectives and go in very different directions. These ...

Because he is primarily focused on helping readers to see all things anew, Father Ayre begins his book not with truth or morality, but with beauty: a walk through the Sagrada Familia cathedral in ...

Hans Boersma, who teaches theology at Regent College in Vancouver, has written a compelling book on patristic interpretation of scripture that proceeds from a “sacramental sensibility.” He provides a ...

The Carmelite church at Whitefriar Street in Dublin is an unlikely but popular pilgrimage site for couples, who can venerate the patron of love’s relics. Candles are lit at the foot of a statue of St.

[Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the Nov. 10, 1995, issue of NCR. Bernard Cooke, an educator who foresaw the need for well-formed lay theologians, died May 31, 2013, in San Antonio.

As I listen to the fallout from President Obama's announcement that he supports marriage equality, I have been struck particularly by the argument that marriage between a man and a woman is superior ...

Sister Joy Ann Wege, a Benedictine Sister of Perpetual Adoration, cuts sheets of altar breads into individual presider hosts in her order's kitchen in Clyde, Mo., in this 2016 photo. (CNS ...

Sister Anne Bartol, a Poor Clare, prepares altar breads at the Monastery of St. Clare in Langhorne, Pa., in this undated photo. The nuns make up to three million altar breads at their bakery each year ...