(Photo: Daniel Ibañez/CNA) ROME. Even the greatest enthusiasts of the present pontificate might not assert that Pope Francis has an...

Pope St. John XXIII sought to initiate a new period of optimistic engagement with the modern world by opening the Second Vatican Council...

By Todd Smith When we reach adulthood, we choose careers to support ourselves and our loved ones. Whether we become doctors, teachers, or...

(Photo: Adrian Dascal / Unsplash) Father Randy Dollins is the Vicar General and Vicar for Clergy for the Archdiocese of Denver. In this...

By Father Ángel Pérez-López, PhD, STL The word “Halloween” is a contraction of the expression “all hallows’ eve” or “all saints’ eve.” It...

Dear Brothers and Sisters, We must face the past and learn from it, and we must know if our children are safe today. Thanks to our...

ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod for Amazonia, which sometimes seems...

One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and a high...

Botham Jean's younger brother Brandt Jean hugs former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger after delivering his impact statement to her in...

Bl. John Henry Newman (1801-90) will be canonized on Oct. 13 and surely will be named a Doctor of the Church at some point in the future....

Some people in our pews today can remember the time when abortion was not legal. But the rest of you who are filling the seats in our...

The United States has well over 200 Catholic colleges and universities. Only a fraction of them, however, conform to St. John Paul’s...

This past June I was in the Munich area for four days, giving a public lecture on Evangelical Catholicism and doing a lot of media...

(Photo: Hanny Naibaho / Unsplash) In an effort to break my “look at the Facebook app every time I have a free minute” habit, I have been...

Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (...

As he was approaching his death, Jesus prayed that the Church would be one, that it would be unified. Looking back in history and at the...

Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute...

There are many people who have either left the Church or are currently considering leaving because of the scandals of recent decades. We...

The eminent sociologist Peter Rossi was a world-class punster whose scholarly accomplishments fed a sometimes-whimsical view of the human...

(Photo: Josh Applegate / Unsplash) On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”...From this...