From my earliest memories, Mary beckoned me to relationship with her. When I finally took Mary up on being devoted and praying to her, it transformed my life and continues to do so. Late in the fall of 1972, when I was...

Author’s Note: This article utilizes creative writing to convey a conversation between an old priest and a skeptical lay person. The incense mingled with the age-old wood of the confessional as centuries of prayers...

Bernward was of a Saxon family and was raised by his uncle Bishop Volkmar of Utrecht when orphaned as a child. He studied at the cathedral school of Heidelburg and at Mainz, where he was ordained in 987. He became...