By Matt D’Antuono | In 2017, an astute sociologist reported on the fastest-growing religious revival in the United States: the religion of Athletica. Heather Smith wrote a satire piece about the...
By Tito Edwards | Before & After: St. Francis Of Assisi In Grapevine, Texas – Shawn R. Tribe at Liturgical Arts Journal +1 The Virgin of Nagasaki: The Statue of Mary That Survived an Atomic...
By Peter Jesserer Smith | BUFFALO, N.Y. — Snowfall covers the upstate New York countryside as Bishop Edward Scharfenberger makes his newest weekly commute as a bishop, 300 miles each way from Albany..
By John Grondelski | When you stop and think about it, the message of Christianity ought to be galvanizing, enrapturing, appealing. God loved the universe into creation. Man, despite his rejection of...
By Sherry Antonetti | How do we make our stable empty in preparation for the arrival of the Christ child in our hearts? 1) Recognize we are lost sheep, and that Christ comes to find us. Let us pray...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis told Jesuits in Thailand he was "scandalized" by some of the anti-migrant rhetoric he hears in Europe, and...
By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Ignoring the reality lived by men and women today has caused a resurgence of old ideologies, such as populism, that inevitably do more harm than good...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Becket - Religious Liberty for All By Linda Petersen SALT LAKE CITY (CNS) -- As an attorney with Becket, a religious liberty law firm, Luke Goodrich is proud to be able to make a...
IMAGE: CNS By PEORIA, Ill. (CNS) -- Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria said Dec. 3 Vatican officials have told him that the upcoming beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has been postponed. A...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican unveiled the Nativity scene and lit the Christmas tree with energy-saving lights in St. Peter's Square during a late...
The Dec. 3 announcement by the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, that the Vatican has decided to postpone the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has led to a grassroots effort to have Masses said...
Just as children run to their mother's arms in times of trouble, Catholics -- including popes and bishops -- know they can and should turn to Mary, said Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington.
Ignoring the reality lived by men and women today has caused a resurgence of old ideologies, such as populism, that inevitably do more harm than good, Pope Francis said.
Four years after publishing his provocative encyclical 'Laudato Si', Pope Francis has criticized its implementation, saying in two separate messages published this week that the global resolutions...
The Vatican unveiled the Nativity scene and lit the Christmas tree with energy-saving lights in St. Peter's Square during a late afternoon ceremony Dec. 5.