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Amid renewed debate over the traditional Latin Mass, the deeper issue is not Latin versus the vernacular but whether liturgy strengthens communion, since across languages and traditions Catholics share one Christ in a Eucharist meant to create unity....
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In today’s gospel from Matthew, we hear one of the great robust dialogues between Jesus and the Canaanite woman who was a person in need, though not a member of the Chosen People....
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Jesuit astronomer Br. Guy Consolmagno debunks the false narrative of a war between faith and science, showing how astronomical discovery deepens religious devotion....
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Physician-assisted suicide isn’t a virtuous alternative to being cared for....
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For many Catholics suffering from the trauma of marital breakdown, this multiyear process felt bureaucratic, emotionally exhausting and financially prohibitive....
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Among the documents of the recent magisterium, few have been received with such open hostility as the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, issued by Pope Francis in July 2021, on the memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel....
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The recent SSPX schism spotlights a subtler struggle between Rome and American liturgical traditionalism, a movement small in numbers yet strategically influential, using new media, selective appeals to tradition and unresolved disputes over Vatican II to pressure the papacy....
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In asking for prayers this month, Pope Leo touches on issues that concern the Church and our society. He also acknowledges that we do not have all the answers....
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In today’s first reading from the first book of the Kings, Elijah emerges from the cave in search of God. But the Lord was not in the strong wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire. God was not to be found in the big things and the...
Amid renewed debate over the traditional Latin Mass, the deeper issue is not Latin versus the vernacular but whether liturgy strengthens communion, since across languages and traditions Catholics share one Christ in a Eucharist meant to create unity....
In today’s gospel from Matthew, we hear one of the great robust dialogues between Jesus and the Canaanite woman who was a person in need, though not a member of the Chosen People....
Jesuit astronomer Br. Guy Consolmagno debunks the false narrative of a war between faith and science, showing how astronomical discovery deepens religious devotion....
Physician-assisted suicide isn’t a virtuous alternative to being cared for....
For many Catholics suffering from the trauma of marital breakdown, this multiyear process felt bureaucratic, emotionally exhausting and financially prohibitive....
Among the documents of the recent magisterium, few have been received with such open hostility as the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, issued by Pope Francis in July 2021, on the memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel....
The recent SSPX schism spotlights a subtler struggle between Rome and American liturgical traditionalism, a movement small in numbers yet strategically influential, using new media, selective appeals to tradition and unresolved disputes over Vatican II to pressure the papacy....
In asking for prayers this month, Pope Leo touches on issues that concern the Church and our society. He also acknowledges that we do not have all the answers....
In today’s first reading from the first book of the Kings, Elijah emerges from the cave in search of God. But the Lord was not in the strong wind, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire. God was not to be found in the big things and the...