Faith, hope and love. These three theological virtues should be the very foundation of our spirituality. Yet, sadly, faith, hope and love seem to be greatly lacking in much of our public lives today. We ...
For the first time since October 2019, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square will host a canonization on May 15. This gap of two-and-a-half years was punctuated only by the pontiff ...
As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge that has ...
The Church in the United States is hurting. We are losing people in droves. Mass attendance is lower than in generations, even though the pandemic restrictions on gatherings have been eased in most places. Catholic ...
There’s an adage that you can tell a lot about a person by their bookshelves. In a similar way, you can tell a lot about the Church and the world based on the books being ...
This Lent has felt like more than 40 days. In a way, the Church and the world has experienced a long Lent since the beginning of the pandemic two years ago. Other trials have come ...
The heartbeat of Catholic life is the Eucharist. This is why American bishops launched a three-year initiative last fall in the grassroots of the Church to revive devotion and belief in the Real Presence of ...
The secular media landscape often depicts nuns as stern, joyless and anything but media-savvy. Of course, such a generalization could not be further from the truth, and the Daughters of St. Paul are a prime ...
In a series looking at traditions within the Church that have been passed down through the centuries, Maryann Eidemiller profiles two priests who are carrying on the work of creating beautiful icons of Jesus, Mary ...
For generations, men and women religious have produced products essential to the life of the Church. Without them, our priests would be without beautiful vestments, our altars would be without proper linens, and even more ...