This Lent, as has increasingly been the case over the last half-dozen years or so, more and more penitents are confessing that they are following the news.
Read MoreThe message of the landmark encyclical, ‘Evangelium Vitae’ is needed now more than ever.
Read MoreAlthough he has not celebrated Mass publicly since 2022, the Holy Father has made Eucharistic adoration a main focus.
Read MoreHowever, vigils for popes, like the current one for Pope Francis, have been the exception, not the rule.
Read More‘Hope,’ which is not what it claims to be and is less than it ought to be, nevertheless gives glimpses into how life in Buenos Aires shaped Jorge Bergoglio.
Read MoreLiturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church architecture, painting and sculpture.
Read MoreIn ministry, do we just Jesus and the Church, or are people drawn to Catholicism as much by the language of friendship and fellowship?
Read MoreCardinal Timothy got the balance correct in his well-crafted invocation.
Read MoreJesus began his public ministry at the lowest place on earth so that we may ascend to the Father.
Read MoreThe quiet of Christmas Eve and the revelry of New Year’s marked a great moment of history with Pope St. John Paul the Great.
Read MoreJohn Paul was the Church’s teacher of jubilees, drawing upon his experience in Poland.
Read MoreMay 2024 Commencement addresses by Harrison Butker and Jonathan Roumie weren’t opposites but offer contrasting, not contradictory, Catholic approaches, which have roots in the Gospels.
Read MoreThe wrongly imprisoned, like Cardinal George Pell, the Carmelite martyrs and Jimmy Lai, use the arts to raise their hearts to God, offering a certain interior freedom, even contact with the transcendent.
Read MoreLove is more reasonable than loneliness, hope more reasonable than despair, because God is with us
Read MoreThe notion has always been offensive to non-Jews, but it shouldn't be
Read MoreThe home church of Pope Francis marks its 1,700th anniversary Nov. 9.
Read MoreIn the recent declaration on Medjugorje, the good fruit of visits there is affirmed. But it has not been affirmed that the apparitions themselves are a good tree.
Read MoreBespoke liturgical seasons permit the flourishing of a greater liturgical piety. Some options are hiding in plain sight.
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