The first gift of the Holy Spirit, the pearl of great price, is wisdom. Wisdom appeals, as the Catechism says, to both the heart and the mind. But our sinful nature often refuses it. We all know ...

By Terry Lees THERE are moments in life when wisdom arrives not as a bolt of lightning but as a dawning — slow, gentle, and ...

he has lavished her upon his friends. Today’s readings offer a selection from the Book of Sirach, part of the “wisdom literature” tradition, though not included in the Hebrew Bible nor the Bibles used ...

Guardian angel of people born February 10 to 14, Damabiah brings wisdom, calm and altruism. Discover her prayer, her stone ...

Close up of the giant statue to the god Nabu stood at the entrance of the Temple of Nabu which is now housed in the Iraq Museum in Iraq. (Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP / CC BY-SA 4.0) Nestled in the ...

Mark Oppenheimer’s column “The Disabled Are a Gift to Judaism” (Houses of Worship, March 7) reminded me of someone from my own past, at St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha, Neb. Like Mr. Oppenheimer’s ...

In this age of the transistor, there is a sense in which God may be said to have given us “transistorized wisdom.” The Book of Proverbs contains hundreds of verses that present truth in the smallest ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...