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Dr. Edward Sri and Father Mike Schmitz have collaborated to produce A Pocket Guide to the Mass, which aims to help engage Catholic liturgy more intentionally. (Photo courtesy of Ascension) By Leila Joy Castillo Do you sometimes come out of Mass discouraged at how easily you were distracted? Have you ever asked yourself why the Eucharistic liturgy is structured the way it is and why we say the words we say during it? Do you wonder how the saints managed to enter into the M

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, have taken issue with the pope’s Gospel teaching on peace. Vice President of the United States J. D. Vance speaking with attendees at the 2025 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons) The U.S. bishops’ chair for doctrine issued a clarification on April 15 reaffirming that Catholic just war theory sets strict moral limits on the

"Christ in Limbo" painting in Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ Church in Bischheim, France. (Photo: Ralph Hammann via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Do you feel stuck in the spiritual life, like something is holding you back? Did Lent fall short of bringing about deeper conversion? Holy Week, as the culmination of Lent, seeks to resolve these dangling tensions, as we celebrate the Paschal Mystery, the new Passover initiated by Jesus. It’s about experiencing liberation, the fre

St. Augustine Arguing with Donatists by Charles André van Loo, c. 1753. (Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) My Lenten reading has included an interesting, if somewhat odd, book about the greatest of the Latin Fathers of the Church: Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare, a philologist currently teaching at Bryn Mawr. The interesting part of the book reframes Augustine as a North African provincial who sees the world differently — and thus thinks differently and

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and Archbishop-designate James Golka pray together in Christ the King Chapel at St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver. (Photo by André Escaleira, Jr.) This last year, the world watched as the cardinals gathered in Rome for the election of a new pope, the 267 th bishop of Rome. New York recently received a new archbishop, and Denver is preparing for one as well. We are witnessing apostolic succession in action, extending an unbroken chain of bishops

As the Feast of St. Francis, the most famous saintly animal lover, approaches, you might be asking: do all dogs really go to Heaven?...

While Lent offers us a clear path of conversion, turning away from the world, Easter invites us into God’s own life. In Lent, we seek to...