The church does not have a mission -- rather, God's mission has a church, a priest told a gathering of women religious Thursday morning. Divine Word Fr. Stephen Bevans told approximately 800 members ...

In the wake of an important document on the priesthood, two members of religious congregations offer a few reflections in conversation with the document on another kind of priesthood that is exercised ...

Going door to door “is not really a Catholic practice that we’ve done often in the past,” said the Rev. Stephen Bevans, professor of mission and culture at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.