Last week, I happened to notice an announcement in my parish bulletin. It read something like, “Interested in Catholicism? Come join our RCIA classes.” I have to confess that I found myself half ...

If the document is real, and Jesus did in fact have a wife, the implications could be tremendous, the article says: the discovery could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married, whether Mary ...

I'm a sixteen year old girl [. . .] For a few years I very much wanted to be a cloistered nun, and read many works and practiced some of the spirituality of different orders. However, for a while now ...

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church. If the Bible is the most-published book in ...

A young woman eschews all mortal ties to unite herself irrevocably with a man who has been dead for centuries, yet has nevertheless managed to lure countless women into this suspect arrangement: a ...

[ Ledger readers are invited to send original poems to Write On!, The Ledger, P.O. Box 408, Lakeland 33802. Poems may be emailed to sherri.valvo@theledger.com. Put poem in the subject line. No more ...