A return to Friday abstinence would be good for the soul and for the planet, uniting our devotion to the Lord and reverence ...

Mostly, we don’t, but we continue to pray despite the feeling that our prayer won’t in fact change the situation. Why? Why ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

"Isn't it interesting that, of all things, the pope would give us, precisely at this moment, an encyclical on the Sacred ...

As the U.S. bishops began their fall general assembly Nov. 11, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio urged his brother bishops to beg ...

The Diocese of Oakland, California, filed a formal Chapter 11 reorganization plan Nov. 8 in an effort to settle some 345 ...

Padre Serra Parish in Camarillo, California, was designated as an official evacuation site by Ventura County Emergency ...

A scene from the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons." (IMDB) I am writing this, ink bottle and quill in hand, before the 2024 ...

Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini succeeds Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, also an Italian Capuchin priest, who turned 90 in ...

Before Holy Angels was established, local deaf Catholics struggled to find a place to practice their faith in ASL.

St. John Lateran's facade bears the Latin inscription of "Mother and Head of all the Churches in the City and the World." ...

Twenty-five years ago, Vigen Guroian, Ph.D., a theologian and professor of religious studies, wrote a book called “Tending ...