From the earliest times of the Church, deacons served in three ministries at the direction of their bishops, meaning that guy who assists the priest at the altar is more than just a friendly neighbor ...
For centuries, men and women religious, as well as members of the clergy, have been establishing and staffing schools and hospitals as a key part of their Gospel mission. While the number of religious sisters ...
“For the past two years, we have been stretched and pulled, worn thinner than ever before,” writes Colleen Pressprich in her latest In Focus for Our Sunday Visitor. She continues: “During Lents like the one ...
It’s time to begin thinking about what you will put in your children’s and grandchildren’s Easter baskets and what gifts you will give for First Communions, confirmations and other sacraments. Let’s not forget that Mother’s ...
Father Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P., American editor for Aleteia, arrived in Poland in mid March to help the Knights of Columbus serve the Ukrainian refugees flooding into the town of Hrebenne. The small village, with ...
In a special report on Catholic colleges and universities, writer Joseph LaPlante explores how restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 force professors to address new realities of how they were teaching — and how ...
In a special report on how Catholic colleges are evangelizing to the rising number of "nones" -- those who are unaffiliated with a particular religion -- writer Nicole Snook talks to several campus ministers who ...
In a new essay, Leonard J. DeLorenzo addresses the identity and mission of Catholic higher education. He writes: “Depending on the audience, what it means to be truly Catholic varies. To some, it would mean ...
The agility of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States to historically navigate swift, new and uncertain waters in the past is producing pre professional majors in new digital disciplines for the future that ...
Until just a few short years ago, the use of online classrooms and distance learning was still a relatively rare phenomenon. Most of the time this was done at specialty institutions with a focus on ...