We Sheas tend toward the hefty end of the spectrum. Some of that is genetics. Some of it is how the family tends to relate to food and (fails) to govern its appetites. Sin has a generational aspect to ...

One of the things that has always given the Gospels the ring of a truthful recounting of historical memory by eyewitnesses is the story of the anointing at Bethany. What is interesting to me are these ...

The coronation of King Charles III is officially underway, and folks are tuning in to witness an auspicious moment in global history. Eight months after his mother and reigning British ruler Queen ...

The anointing screen which will hide King Charles from public view is inspired by the 56 countries of the Commonwealth Let the anointing begin! Ahead of the King Charles' coronation on May 6, the ...

The day of King Charles III's coronation is here – and it comes with all the pomp and pageantry you'd expect, as well as the private moment during which Charles was anointed behind the Anointing ...

I’ll tell you an anointing story. A priest told it to me. He had been in a war. The war, he called it. We didn’t think there would ever be another war after that war, he said. Too bad we were wrong ...

This day we call Palm Sunday, or in our odd, ecclesial grammar, "Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion," always gives us too much to take in. It begins with Jesus’ entry into the holy city of Jerusalem ...

I am a wealthy woman. I don’t have as much as some, but I know that I have far more than I need. Compared with most human beings on this planet and even compared with most Americans, I am rich. This ...

Pope John Paul II has been given the Roman Catholic sacrament reserved for the sick and the dying, following the sudden deterioration in his health. However, the ritual, called the Anointing of the ...