The risk is that the attention given to getting the rules right can distract from the fact that a healthy society is always primarily about relationships and only secondarily about rules. It is only ...

On Wednesday Pope Francis cautioned that unless wealth and power are put at the service of society, especially the poor, they risk becoming instruments of corruption, private interests and various ...

For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page, which includes Villegas's current Living by the Word column as well as past magazine and blog content. For full ...

Editor’s Note: Laura Bernardini is director of coverage in CNN’s Washington Bureau. The views expressed in this column belong to Bernardini. That’s what happened during first Book of Kings: there wasn ...

10:01, Sun, Jun 14, 2020 Updated: 21:37, Thu, Jul 23, 2020 Archaeologists in Israel may have unearthed the fabled Jezreel winery featured in the Old Testament's Book of Kings. Although first ...

Everyone is at least able to distinguish between good and bad or right and wrong, but it is out of sheer objection to truth that one decides to take a course of action contrary to the normal course of ...

In the Hebrew Bible, the story of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel is more than a cautionary tale. It is a piercing examination of how power, when unchecked by conscience, can rot the moral foundation of a ...