One of the greatest challenges for Christians today is to move beyond simply acknowledging the growing religious diversity in our rapidly shrinking world to embrace religious pluralism, that is, to ...

A house of prayer for all peoples. -- Isaiah 56:6,7 In keeping with the vision of their prophets, the builders of the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem designed it to be a house of prayer for all ...

A star is seen in the distant east and pilgrims set out to find the newborn king of the world. They pressed on around the Fertile Crescent, with that star ever before them. How many people exalted ...

Every once in a while, someone of genius coins an entirely new phrase that opens our eyes to see the world in a whole new light. Pope Benedict almost casually let fall a phrase in December that may ...

The Pontifical Council for Culture is setting up a new foundation, The Courtyard of the Gentiles, aimed at reaching out to atheists and agnostics. As part of Pope Benedict XVI’s efforts to further the ...

“An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.”-(Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 88 1973) Friends ...