The Religion of Our Secular World

Is the Bible really the Word of God? What makes the Bible different from the texts of other religions, and how can we know that Scripture is truly inspired by God? Dr. Sri explains Divine Revelation and how we can have confidence that, through Sacred Scripture, we encounter God s ...  Show more

Did you know that the Hail Mary is actually a prayer that ultimately leads us to Jesus? Dr. Sri explains the Biblical roots of the prayer and reveals how Jesus is the “center of gravity” of the prayer. He also offers a simple way to pray it with greater attention and love. _ _ Fo ...  Show more

Drawing on both Christian and Buddhist tradition, this week Michael shares a secular interpretation of some fundamental spiritual truths about heaven, hell, and how life works here on earth! 

Our modern culture suggests a tension between spirituality and religion. But the Magi in today's Gospel demonstrate that when spirituality is lifted up by revelation—when the Magi are told by the religious leaders where the Messiah is to be born—we find the object of our spiri ...

Friends, a great theme of the Bible is that of God’s chosen people. At the same time, we also see that God’s salvific plan has to do with all of humanity—and indeed with all of creation. God chooses Israel—and the New Israel, the Church—precisely for the sake of the whole worl ...

Friends, our first reading and our Gospel for this weekend have a special resonance for our time because they both speak clearly about life after death. Our dominant secularist or materialist ideology says that matter in motion is all there is; the world came into being, and e ...