During his general audience Pope Francis spoke on the Holy Spirit's gift of Fear of the Lord, saying it does not mean we should be afraid of God, but rather serves as a reminder to do the right thing.

Midway through a retreat I was leading for faculty and staff of a Jesuit high school, a young teacher raised her hand. “How,” she asked with a hint of exasperation, “do I explain ‘fear of the Lord’ to ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

The Bible tells us to “fear not” 365 times but also has almost 200 verses that encourage us to fear God. Clearly, the Bible teaches that there is good fear and bad fear. Bad fear is worry or anxiety ...

Even close relatives like “awe” and “reverence” don’t quite capture the passionate intensity of trembling in the presence of a holy God. American culture is full of fear. Although our country is ...

Last time in this space, we talked a bit about what the fear of the Lord is not: It is not servile or cringing fear. This is news to a lot of people in our culture — and not all of them are ...

Just a few days ago, three teenagers gunned down a college student, an Australian living in Oklahoma and attending college on a baseball scholarship, seemingly at random. A woman in Pennsylvania gave ...

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 ...