“Being a ‘Good Catholic’ I had never read the entire Bible, but I wanted to read the Bible—so I wrote this book so I could read the Bible,” says Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto, Professor of History at ...

Proverbs belongs to the so-called wisdom literature of the Old Testament and cannot be fully understood without some knowledge of this literary genre. In some measure wisdom is found amongst all ...

Beloved, it is only those whom the Spirit of God has enlightened that will understand that wisdom is all about the knowledge of the truth and its application. A man without true wisdom is like one ...

Last Sunday, we celebrated Pentecost which commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit. The feast reminds us that God is ever-present in our lives, hopefully informing and inspiring our actions. This ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

Something I’ve learned from living by the ocean: Fishing boats go out at night. At midnight I often see tiny lights bobbing on the horizon, people out earning a living as I am going to bed. But in all ...

Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, is author of The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50, from which this essay is adapted. President Donald Trump has been praised ...

It is commonly believed that with age comes wisdom. But as much as our dadi jaan would disagree, age is not always the proverbial ladder that offers ascent to wisdom. Contrary to popular belief, ...