In The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, God extends a finger to animate the world’s first man with the spark of life. But what if the famed fresco is ...

Pope Francis' upcoming encyclical on ecology will draw from decades of Catholic social thought on God's creation in light of new perspectives on environmental problems, a prominent magazine has said ...

Six lectures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger were almost lost forever. But now, they have been collected in a new Ignatius Press book, The Divine Project: Reflections on Creation and Church. “It’s a ...

Many religious types are staunch supporters of the thought that God created humans. They argue that everything created has a beginning, and God is that beginning, the cause of everything that exists.

Today is the first Sunday of Lent, the 40-day period in which we prepare ourselves mentally and physically for Easter, focusing on prayer, fasting, almsgiving and service to others. Today’s readings ...

I write to you while looking out onto a lake in southern Indiana, sitting in a cabin where my family vacations every summer. While I’m not a big fan of summer, it’s one of the few times all year the ...

Michelangelo’s artistic masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel broke new ground in portraying the dynamic creative acts of God, but his work also depicts the combined importance of men and women through ...

Before there was a universe, God already was. This means that there was a time before anything except God existed. As hard as that is to imagine, it raises questions like these. “What was God doing ...

SIR, The adoption of these lyrical lines as part of the second stanza of Nigeria’s anthem in 1978 was aimed at re-directing the hearts of Nigerians to their creator, the cornerstone, and firm pillar ...