There’s no greater adventure than getting to know Jesus Christ. But this involves more than historical study about where he lived, what he ate and who he hung around with. Above all, it means getting ...

An individual may ask a priest to offer a Mass for several reasons: for example, in thanksgiving, for the intentions of another person (such as on a birthday), or, as is most common, for the repose of ...

Vatican II in Session, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. “The appearance of the church in the modern era shows that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens, and ...

The stench of their burning is with us yet. The stakes and gibbets where witches perished by the tens of thousands during early modern times still stand in popular imagination. For historians, the ...

The official process for declaring someone a saint is called canonization. Prior to the year 1234, the Church did not have a formal process as such. Usually martyrs and those recognized as holy were ...

The newly published Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church dedicates one of its first chapters to the institution of the family, described as “the vital cell of society.” The opening number ...

I tuned to a television station for the Rosary. When the priest reached the 4th decade, “the Assumption,” they showed scenes of a Church in Israel named, “The Sleep of Mary.” The Church includes a ...

The feeling of spiritual emptiness, or being abandoned by God, is natural in the process of growing closer to Christ. When the world looked at the face of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, it saw pure, ...

Sometime early in 2020 — at different times for different people — we Americans learned about Covid: a disease unlike anything we had experienced. We heard expert predictions that the disease would ...

Philosopher Peter Kreeft presents the arguments commonly used to explain why the unborn child is not a human person and then shows clearly and simply why each of these arguments cannot possibly be ...

There is much excitement today, especially among the young, about John Paul II’s “theology of the body” — the 129 catechetical addresses he gave between 1979 and 1984 that have revolutionized the way ...

The teaching document issued by the Pontifical Council on the Family, The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education within the Family, in 1996, is yet another one of the growing ...