The 38-year-old Knights of Columbus founder, who will be beatified Oct. 31, is recognized for starting the fraternal organization, but it was in his dedication to his parochial mission where his heroic holiness was lived.
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Fratelli Tutti appears to suggest that military defeat of tyranny should be replaced with diplomatic dialogue.
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The story of abortion law in the United States for the last 40 years is very much a story about Catholics in public life.
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Catholics in the U.S. will pay most attention to the elevation of Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., whose appointment is a sign that some power centers matter more than others.
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The present moment demonstrates how much American politics have shifted since 1984.
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Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on “fraternity and social friendship,” will generate work for theologians for some time.
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There is less in the Holy Father’s comments than meets the eye, but it remains a significant statement, and what exactly it means remains unclear.
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Coons’ grilling of Barrett over contraception employed a reverse theology of the body that contrasts radically with what JPII taught about the ‘language’ of conjugal self-giving.
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After generations of governments at all levels promoting recycling with salvific zeal, we now have the confession: recycling of plastics has mostly been a crock.
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This is a debate we should be having now, as the pandemic has caused the ground to shift on unemployment and government assistance.
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If the children, so engagingly acted in the current film, can overcome their fear with faith, why not adults, too?
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Failure to understand deeply religious people will underlie a lot of words thrown at the U.S. Supreme Court nominee this week.
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Two new beati, both Italians, have much to teach us.
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The Abraham Accords attempt to make religion a factor of common heritage instead of division.
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Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, not unlike Laudato Si before it, is more a political than a social document.
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Glendon was at the center of the Catholic Church’s pushback against a kind of feminism that pitted women’s public contributions against their mission in the family and culture.
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Barrett and her husband have seven children, including two adopted from Haiti and one with Down syndrome.
Read MoreThe 2010 visit to Great Britain was important for three key reasons which unite the figures of Newman and Benedict.
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