Ten years ago, I first delved into monastic cooking for an iconography class that Fr. Dennis Paez, SDB, and I organized for the benefit of the Ginto Foundation Scholars. The once out-of-school youth ...

Over the centuries, a succession of empires—Greek, Persian, Roman, Byzantine and, finally, Ottoman—ruled over the city of Ephesus. Yet no matter how many times it changed hands, the city remained one ...

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is not only a story of total surrender and eternal redemption. It is also a tale of all-embracing obedience on the part of St. John. On the cross, in His Seven ...