The quiet divine blessing that each birth month tends to bring is explained below. Regardless of your birth month, this gift is something you’ve likely been harnessing your entire life without even ...

I visited Maureen, an old friend who has Alzheimer’s, this week. As we admired the spring blossoms outside her window, she began talking about how she is lucky. She found it a blessing that she still ...

There is currently considerable discussion about whether it is possible to bless persons in same-sex unions. In light of this, it can be useful to step back and take a look at the topic of blessings ...

It’s a taboo subject for real estate agents. But for many homeowners, it’s a tradition. For centuries, many different cultures have done something strikingly similar to their dwellings: they bless ...

Make no mistake, “Fiducia Supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings” advances a carefully crafted “theological reflection” that, as stated in the text, “implies a real development from what has ...

Roman Catholicism is in precarious shape when blessings are controversial. Just before Christmas, and on the heels of the Synod—a gathering of bishops and some lay people to discuss church policy—Pope ...

On the fifth floor of the clinic at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, nurses scurry from room to room, tending, soothing, answering questions. It’s an unlikely oasis for contemplation, but that’s what ...

WITTENBERG, Germany (RNS) — The woman startled at the blessing. “Ich habe dich bei deinem Namen gerufen; du bist mein!” In English: “I have called you by name; you are mine!” It may not have been the ...

An ultra-Orthodox Jew participates in a blessing during the holiday of Passover, at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Leo ...

The Vatican's recent declaration permitting some form of blessing for couples in same-sex relationships has inflamed the long-standing theological and cultural battles inside the Catholic Church. The ...