The path that led him to enter into full communion with the Church at the age of twenty-nine prepared him for his special ministry of preaching and his prolific writings that remain a treasury of ...

Children all over the world begin viewing hard-core Internet pornography long before their parents even consider discussing its dangers. Sean Covey, son of the famous Stephen Covey, has written a ...

But the Church remembers him in the canon of saints as a scholar and translator of the Bible who exemplified a holiness of life worthy of emulation. Widely known as one of the greatest of the Latin ...

It is just five hundred years since his birth in 1491 at the Castle of Loyola, Spain. Father John A. Hardon, S.J By now a small library has been written about Ignatian spirituality. Literally millions ...

Excommunication can be a frightening word. E.x.c.o.m.m.u.n.i.c.a.t.i.o.n. The reality is no less grave. We’ve all seen that arresting scene from the movie Becket, when the titular archbishop ...

In the second century, St. Irenaeus coined one of the most famous phrases in Christianity: “The glory of God is man, fully alive!” “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo, Public Domain, courtesy of ...

Last night, in parish neighborhoods all over Mexico and the U.S., Christian faithful began begging from house to house looking for a place to stay in imitation and remembrance of the poor Holy Family.

Do you think the United States and Western Europe are made up of imperialist, colonialist, resource-exploiting, greedy, grasping, brown-skin-hating people whose values are not worth defending? If you ...

Servant of God Romano Guardini (1885–1968), Italian-born German Catholic priest, author, and academic, authored The Lord, a spiritual classic. He is considered one of the most important figures in ...

Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947–1984), Polish priest and staunch anti-Communist, associated with Solidarity trade unions and dared openly to celebrate Mass under the ­country’s totalitarian regime. He ...

Two lengths of fetters are here fused in a single chain, displayed in a church all its own near the Roman Colosseum. The bonds, according to tradition, once held fast the limbs of St. Peter the ...

Stable, but still comatose, he needed a feeding tube. My husband and I met with his care team to authorize it. A doctor asked us if we had considered whether our son would want this; perhaps, she ...