Opinion

The believer should imitate the persistent widow — “importunate” she’s called.

“Dilexi Te” manifests both Pope Leo’s recognition that we need to grow in unity and subtly illustrates a means to bring such unity to a fractured church.

In the church, we do not live or die on our individual faith alone. We are united with one another, in Christ, and we can cling to one another’s faith …

Scripture Readings for Oct. 12, 2025, Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 5:14-17Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4​​2 Tm 2:8-13Lk 17:11-19 A writer once said that the two most popular prayers …

Scripture readings for Oct. 5, 2025, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Hb 1:2-3; 2:2-4Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-92 Tm 1:6-8, 13-14Lk 17:5-10 Between the disciples of Jesus and those whose faith …

On Oct. 1, the church celebrates the feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux whose “little way” of love inspires with a message that feels ever more urgent today.

Leah Libresco Sargeant discusses her new book “The Dignity of Dependence” about interdependence, modern society’s treatment of women and the reality of women’s needs.

A common complaint of late among the Vaticanisti has been that, so far, Pope Leo XIV has had a rather “boring” pontificate. Compared to the early days of the Francis …

It’s a familiar question: What should we tell children when a pet dies and they ask whether animals have souls and do animals go to heaven?

“I forgive him.” We heard those words Sunday from Erika Kirk, spoken about the young man who had murdered her husband less than two weeks before, and her message immediately …