In 2000, after Blessed John Paul II officially declared the Sunday after Easter to be celebrated around the world as Divine Mercy Sunday, the image of Jesus as the Divine Mercy started to become ...

The readings on this holiest of nights prove particularly poignant and revelatory. They disclose in the starkest of ...

“Humankind was created as God’s reflection: In the divine image God created them; female and male, God made them.” — Genesis 1:27 The Inclusive Bible While sorting through files from days gone by, I ...

“The Lord promises us through St. Faustina that the soul that will venerate, or honor, this image will never perish.” Father Chris Alar (photo: Courtesy of Marians of the Immaculate Conception / ...

Are humans still made in God's image? Many find the idea of humans being created in the image/likeness of God a great thought to make the world a better place; eliminating all prejudices; inspiring us ...

When teaching midrash, I enjoy showing how paintings are just as much midrash as classical rabbinical texts. A Renaissance painter, Bacchiacca (1494-1557), depicted Eve lovingly holding Abel aloft, ...

In what way can human beings be said to be in the divine image? Christian theologians have from early on opted for the reading that it was in virtue of their rationality that humans—or sometimes only ...

Excerpted from “Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World.” Author C. S. Lewis was an atheist for the first three decades of his life. Then, after much soul searching, he concluded that God ...