On Feb. 24, about 10 days into his hospitalization, there were unconfirmed reports, now apparently...

Indian Prime Minister Modi: Pope Francis was ‘beacon of compassion’ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Jews around the world remembered Pope Francis as a friend to the Jewish people, a...

As all in the Catholic Church pray for the eternal repose of the soul of...

  Pope Francis’ funeral Mass will take place Saturday, April 26, at 10 a.m. in...

The Vatican flag flies at half-mast at the Nunciature in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and Fridolin Cardinal...

To the Christian, faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is an expression of certainty...

The Risen Christ stands in our midst. He has conquered the kingdom of sin and...

I believe all kinds of things: I believe E = mc2 (though I do not...

I think about Jesus’s wounds a lot. Not in a “devotion to the Five Holy...

Looking out my window this morning, it’s difficult to remember (let alone believe) that spring...

The heart of our Catholic Existence is to replicate the Risen Christ’s life. It is...

Silence speaks. On a first date, long periods of silence, say, “This is not going...

Pope Francis has called God's mercy “an abyss beyond our comprehension.” “God's mercy can make...

O, Death Won’t you spare me over til another year Well what is this that...

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Much has been said about the compatibility between faith and reason, religion and science. But...

In many Catholic parishes on Holy Thursday, a footwashing ritual is incorporated into Mass. Although optional,...

“Do you know what I have done to you? You call me teacher and Lord;...

For a college student, stability is a myth, a memory of childhood. Every year, college...

“Take, eat. This is my body, given up for you. Take, drink. This is my...

Although the Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life,”many Catholics are unfamiliar...

When pure love, divine love, agape, enters a world turned in on itself, a world...

There’s no doubt that the so-called “woke” march toward cultural domination suffered a setback after...

In a world marked by pick-and-choose approaches to protecting human dignity — what Pope Francis...

In 2022, The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America – where I serve...

This year’s 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is suitably marked by both the...

There is an eloquent ambiguity in the way in which the opening word of the...

Laetare (“Rejoice”) Sunday was a gracious pause to our Lenten penance. After enjoying its light-heartedness, the...

While the numbers in that imaginary dialogue may sound like a joke, they are not—thanks...

It all sounds like the plot of the next space blockbuster movie, but for the...

A seminarian abducted on March 3 from a parish rectory in the Nigerian Diocese of Auchi was murdered by...

In his talk on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, which has now amassed...

When Beverly Jacobson first learned that her unborn daughter Verity would be born with the...

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament kicks off March 18 and this year’s tournament includes eight...

“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” These words are spoken...

Lent shouldn’t be necessary. That’s what St. Benedict of Nursia, the great father of monks,...

Lent is a time especially focused on conversion, on turning from sin and turning to...

Lent: Though Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent today, Lent is the older of...

“Fasting is a medicine.” — St. John Chrysostom “The days will come, when the bridegroom...

On Ash Wednesday, to kick off the penitential season of Lent in preparation for Easter,...

The Jubilee Year is upon us; and next month, the Vatican, as part of its...

In the United States, the last week of January is always dedicated to Catholic Schools...

You are on holiday in Rome, walking along the famous Piazza del Popolo and munching...

Pope Francis marked the Sunday of the Word of God by installing 40 Catholics from...

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis emphasized that the horrors of Auschwitz “must never...

President Donald Trump has reinstated the “Mexico City Policy,” a longstanding ban on government funding...

President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life activists on Thursday, fulfilling a promise he...

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A Wisconsin judge ruled Friday that a sexual assault case against Theodore McCarrick will remain...

The celebration of Christmas has a way of amplifying our ordinary family experience. For a...

A shortcut to hope For a priest it is always heartening when a woman shares...

If only I had attained Christian perfection already. If only I didn’t have to struggle...

Fifteen new saints and sixteen new blesseds were honored in the two canonization ceremonies and...

Located 947 miles from the North Pole in northwest Greenland, the Pituffik Space Base is...

Is it possible to have constant joy amid the trials, temptations, disappointments, and challenges of...

I still have the Nativity creche that I grew up with in my boyhood home....

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, Larry Simms, Jimmy Hawkins, James Stewart, Donna Reed, Karolyn Grimes, 1946...

For every human being, death is a certainty. It looms on the horizon of our...

That the first visitors to come pay homage to the infant King were shepherds is...

Every December, we ask you to call in and suggest a book that would make...

A Catholic parish in Ventura County, California, has been serving as an evacuation shelter in...

Each Nov. 11, the United States observes Veterans Day to honor all the military men...

Detroit Lions kicker Jake Bates came up clutch in the team’s 26-23 win over the Houston...

As Germany marks the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall this year, key witnesses...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is calling for respect and civility after the 2024 U.S....

Voters in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota on Tuesday night voted down major pro-abortion proposals...

The great anti-euthanasia warrior, Rita Marker, has died at 83 after a long illness. Rita...

  Six U.S. Catholic bishops and archbishops shared with the Register some of the saints...

All Saints’ Day is a yearly opportunity to be powerfully moved by the reality of...

Readings: • Rev 7:2-4, 9-14 • Psa 24:1BC-2, 3-4AB, 5-6 • 1 Jn 3:1-3 •...

“Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple....

Ahead of the 2025 Jubilee, the Vatican has launched a cartoon mascot unveiled Monday as...

This week, my 11-year-old nephew and godson Liam delivered a crisp, 60-second speech to his...

Journalists and professors have formed a ululating chorus mourning the loss of the Supreme Court’s...

When the final document of the Synod on Synodality’s was confirmed on Oct. 26, it...

After the front door of a home opens, both guest and resident step forward to...

Extremists in Nigeria’s Borno State, believed to be from Boko Haram, have beheaded four abducted...

The Vatican announced Tuesday that it has renewed its agreement with China on the appointment...

The Church, in various periods of her history, has had to deal with the scourge...

Over the past few weeks, digital Catholic social hubs have been ablaze with passionate debates...

Has feminism offered society a positive contribution? Or has it, as Carrie Gress says in...

Editor's Note: On an episode of Mast Appeal, Colleen Kelly Mast shared a list of...

Center your marriage on Christ by praying daily together. Fr. Patrick Peyton's famous quote “Families...

Books are an essential tool for forming our minds as Catholics. On Tuesday's program, we...

The body of Benedictine Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster lies in the basement of the church of...

Ten years ago, in the days following Aug. 6-7, 2014, the city of Erbil in...

U.S. track star Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who broke her own world record and won the gold medal in...

“The sign of the feeding of the thousands,” wrote Monsignor Romano Guardini in The Lord, “shatters...

If you haven’t been to Paris, you haven’t been to Notre-Dame de Paris, which means...

In response to the July 26 Paris Olympics opening ceremony that mocked the Last Supper...

Flannery O’Connor, who died 60 years ago Aug. 3, has a sparkling reputation for creating...

Editor's Note: After the Olympics, Eric Liddell answered the Lord's calling and went to China...

Eric Liddell took his starting spot in the finals for the 400 meters. More than...

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT), the groundbreaking ecumenical...

The University of Notre Dame is a world-renowned, albeit somewhat controversial, center of Catholic thought...

This past May, my niece graduated from high school. She was born in 2005, the...

The 2024 Republican National Convention’s platform committee voted on Monday to adopt new language regarding...

Father Marcel Taillon, vocations director at the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, is settling...

The Vatican has officially excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of...

Pro-life activist Paul Vaughn, who was convicted on federal charges for his role in a...

Independence Day is an opportunity for every citizen, and especially Christian citizens, to pause and...

In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on...

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, born on April 6, 1901, to a prominent and wealthy Italian...

Many political and social progressives are eager to redefine America as starting not in 1776,...

Did you know that many Catholic patriots not only took part in the America Revolution...

This weekend, Catholic radio host and my former employer, Al Kresta passed into eternity.  I...

Al Kresta, host of the nationally syndicated talk show “Kresta in the Afternoon” on Ave...

The U.S. Senate has rejected the “Right to Contraception Act,” which would create a federal...

Tens of thousands of Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944....

Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong, marking the 35th anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen...

June is known as the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus most simply because...

The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gained its first member of parliament in the...

Approximately 20 theologians are in Rome for 10 days of preparatory work preceding the drafting...

Editor’s Note: Father Roger Landry is making a 65-day pilgrimage on the St. Elizabeth Ann...

Forty-five years ago, The New York Times cast its gimlet eye over the first three days of Pope...

Representatives of the Australian Catholic Medical Association, with the support of several Catholic moral theologians...

For those of us who grew up in the wake of the Second Vatican Council—the...

Fourteen pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have been convicted of subversion while billionaire Catholic convert...

Paulette Harlow, an elderly woman with a debilitating medical condition was sentenced to 24 months...

Church officials strongly condemned a recent attack on Christians in Sargodha, Pakistan, and expressed disappointment...

Last fall I argued that our current cultural moment is characterized by desecration. And at the heart...

It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is...

"Our Lady of the Trinity” is a title given to Our Blessed Mother by the...

The time to save the persecuted Christian Armenians is now. The recent release of USCIRF’s annual...

On this first Sunday after Pentecost, the Church calls us to remember the Most Holy...

New data released in the 2023 Cooperative Election Study suggests that the upward trend in those...

A hermit in Kentucky who publicly identified as transgender this past weekend has prompted questions...

Pope Francis has recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, paving...

Vatican (kath.net) “When I look at the Gospel sociologically, then yes, I am a communist,...

ROME — Age certainly accelerates one’s sense of the passage of time. Well do I...

St. Bonaventure University is a Catholic liberal arts college in upstate New York. Run by...

The Second Vatican Council, in its document Gaudium et Spes, teaches us that only in the...

Our Lady of Guadalupe took center stage during the presidential debate in Mexico this week...

As parents we might sometimes feel overwhelmed with what it takes to raise our children....

The charity of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist is the medicine to help us truly...

Much of the talk last week was about the new Vatican norms for the discernment of...

It is almost a cliché in Latin America that whenever a leftist government is elected,...

Priests in Germany are not supportive of the controversial German Synodal Way, according to a...

The United Kingdom’s Department of Education intends to prohibit the promotion of gender ideology within...

Apparitions and extraordinary spiritual phenomena are not necessary for salvation, but they can be spiritually...

There is a couple I know who found their marriage nearly untenable, and in some...

On Resurrection Day, Jesus breathed on His disciples—a gesture odd in itself but packed with meaning for...

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage kicks off this weekend as Catholics observe the solemnity of Pentecost...

Prominent Catholics are voicing their support for Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker after he delivered a...

The Most Holy Trinity wants to unleash supernatural power in our lives through the Holy...

Eleven years into his pontificate, Francis remains popular among Americans who identify as Catholic. Some...

After seven pro-life activists were sentenced to years in prison for a “rescue” attempt at...

As faculty, including even philosophy professors, aid and abet student bad behavior on campus, it...

Sometimes it’s hard to have hope. Living hopefully can be difficult ... when there seems...

A priest in Chicago has apologized for the controversial way in which he blessed a...

Two pro-life activists were sentenced to years in prison in a Washington, D.C., district court...

The German Bishops’ Conference president has called Germany — a nation whose very history is entangled with...

The month of May has mercifully arrived. That means the end of the spring semester...

In summer 2021, when I realized that on April 28, 2022 it would be exactly...

Affection for Blessed Imelda Lambertini, whose feast day is May 12, has spread all over...

Sunday, May 12, is the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. Mass readings: Acts 1:1-11; Psalm...

My wife is my godmother. On the day of my baptism, my wife stood by...

On Ascension Day, Jesus gives His apostles—a group of men singularly lacking in influence—a worldwide...

Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, is accusing President Joe Biden of...

Jesus utilized the Passover Seder to not only institute a new ritual that we now...

The Feast of the Ascension seems on a par with Easter.  It gets equal attention...

The “United” in “United Methodist Church” (UMC) has always been aspirational. The UMC was founded...

The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of the Servant of God Nino Baglieri...

I have been very sad since April 8, 2024, when the Vatican’s Dicastery for the...

In the book of Numbers, Moses sends twelve men to explore the Promised Land before...

To highlight a strong Marian aspect of the National Eucharistic Revival during the National Eucharistic...

Pier Giorgio Frassati’s friends called him an “explosion of joy.” Those same words describe perfectly...

There is no quicker way to becoming a saint and to advancing in humility than...

Editor’s Note: There are an estimated 10-12 million Catholics in mainland China, spread across 147 ecclesiastical jurisdictions...

Last month the Biden administration issued final rules related to Title IX, the federal law that prohibits...

Edith Stein could be declared a doctor of the Church with the title “doctor veritatis,”...

The title “Mother of Mercy” first appears with reference to Mary in the tenth century,...

In early March, the organizing committee for the upcoming Paris Olympics released its official promotional...

Evidently timed to coincide with the heating up of the presidential race, a movie called Civil...

Does anyone sit back after 15 minutes of scrolling, give a peaceful sigh, and say,...

Most people born in the late nineties and into the two-thousands have lived their childhoods...

Today, Jesus tells His disciples that they should keep God’s commandments.  The reason might surprise...

Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on Thursday that the protests...

St. Joseph Shrine in Detroit is a thriving parish. Just minutes from the center of...

It’s one of the most astonishing items on display in the Vatican Museums. A flag...

Here begins the first virtue in this series of Jesus’ Eucharistic Virtues: humility. It is...

The words we use to describe our politics and parties – liberal, conservative, etc. –...

Athanasius lived a long and varied life subject to philosophical, political, and theological controversies, violence,...

Father Paul Tatu Mothobi, a member the Congregation of the Sacred Stigmata (CSS/Stigmatines) and former media and...

Urgent prayers are needed for Leah Darrow’s son, who was born prematurely late last night....

In the March-April 2024 Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, there is an article that...

    The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a new report on Wednesday highlighting...

Here’s a look at abortion-related developments that took place in various U.S. states this week....

May will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the...

I should pray more.  And I definitely need to be a better person. Since I...

Is “seizing the day” the solution to our modern maladies, to the anxieties that we...

French priest Matthieu Raffray disclosed that the Paris prosecutor’s office has dismissed a case initiated...

Pope Francis recently announced his intention to travel to Southeast Asia in September to visit...

There have been twelve popes named Pius; the first (Pope Saint Pius I) in the...

U.S. president Joe Biden has come under fire for making the sign of the cross...

Readings: • Acts 9:26-31 • Ps 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32 • 1 Jn 3:18-24 •...

Today’s Gen Z students have a (perhaps unfair) reputation for caring more about their social-media...

On April 27, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the canonization of Pope St. John...

William Shakespeare is a mystery. What we know about the facts of his life is...

Four German bishops on Wednesday distanced themselves from the controversial Synodal Way’s plans for a permanent...

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati could be declared a saint during the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee...

All of us suffer. We live in a fallen world, and suffering is simply a...

Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden, a Catholic, is battling a high unfavorability rating among his...

A new Mass setting has ranked #1 in Billboard’s Traditional Classical Albums chart this month....

Throughout her freshman and sophomore years at Columbine High School, Jenica Thornby went to the...

I have heard it said by several atheists that they wish they could believe in...

I’d never ridden the subway with a bishop before. But then again, how many of...

For 7 years, I have lived with a chronic medical condition called bile reflux disease....

In general, the modern era neglects the practice of honoring excellent people. We idolize the...

Here in the Diocese of Lansing — and, indeed, in a growing number of Catholic...

Thomistic theology is rarely associated with liturgical prayer, even by many of St. Thomas’ own disciples....

Sunday, April 21, is the Fourth Sunday of Easter. Mass readings: Acts 4:8-12; Psalm 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26,...

Scotland’s only gender clinic for minors is formally pausing the prescription of puberty blockers and...

A senior business editor at National Public Radio has resigned after writing an essay for an online...

As the miraculous waters at Lourdes became widely known, St. Bernadette chose to live a...

I first learned of Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Ratzinger, from his former student, Father...

While it is far short of the sort of justice that this case demands, we...

Many know Ferrero Rocher for its popular hazelnut chocolates, but the company’s tie to Our...

A man convicted of firebombing a pro-life organization’s office in Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced to over seven...

In the wake of sex abuse scandals in the German Archdiocese of Freiburg, a commission has called...

A proposed constitutional amendment allowing abortion until birth in Maine was disqualified from the November...

When speaking to his son, King David reminds Solomon what it takes to succeed as...

By the end of the second century, Christians were thoroughly entrenched within Roman culture and...

Earlier this week, my spiritual daughter texted to tell me that the course she and...

For years, religious leaders in the U.S. have raised concerns about the rise of the...

When parents seek medical help for their gender-confused children, they are assured that puberty blockers are “reversible”...

Culture wars, like most wars of attrition, are wearisome, enervating affairs. Competing and irreconcilable accounts...

On June 30, 2023, in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a major win for free speech, the...

Dignitas Infinita, the new declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF),...

LAOAG CITY, Philippines — On April 7, the cause for canonization of 13-year old Filipina Niña...

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) approved a policy on Monday that stated that...

You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite....

Were you there when the sun refused to shine? So our choir sang on Good...

The Day has arrived. The Great 2024 North American Solar Eclipse occurs today, and weather...

Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive presidential Republican nominee for 2024, announced his abortion policy...

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux writes that when Saint Gabriel announced to Mary that she had...

Jessica Hanna, a Catholic mother of four and pro-life advocate who chose to forgo cancer...

The Vatican’s top doctrinal office issued a declaration on the theme of human dignity on...

This weekend, we celebrate a First Friday in honor of the Sacred Heart and Divine...

Today’s Gospel records a post-Resurrection appearance of Jesus in which His mercy to sinners begins...

I am always amazed when people still believe legalized assisted suicide/euthanasia is about terminal illness....

Thomas Gumbleton, a vocal peace activist and critic of war and nuclear weapons who served...

Catholics who attended Easter Mass at a historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, church were met...

Almost exactly a year ago, during last year’s Easter Octave, I wrote an essay focusing on themes...

Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, a twice-daily prayer of the rosary who at his death was...

When the Vatican releases a document on human dignity April 8 that addresses gender ideology, it won’t...

The Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople has expressed a desire that Christians in the East...

When faced with the question of why there is so much suffering in the world,...

  I admit I don’t know much about soccer, but when Catholic convert and professional...

The Haitian Conference of Religious (CDH) reported that a minor seminary run by the Spiritan Fathers was...

The French government has initiated a series of legal measures against Father Matthieu Raffray for...

Pope Francis said he was “used” in the 2005 conclave in an effort to block...

I believe all kinds of things: I believe E = mc2 (though I do not...

Four pro-life Christians in Tennessee were convicted Tuesday of violating the Freedom of Access to...

A YouTuber disillusioned with his experience in an Austrian evangelical Protestant environment has found a...

Religious persecution in early 20th-century Mexico brought with it many martyrs who offered their lives to defend...

The Vatican’s top doctrinal office next week will unveil a new declaration on the theme...

Thousands of mourners lined the streets of the New York suburb of Massapequa on Long...

The Scottish police announced Tuesday that they won’t charge J.K. Rowling under the country’s new hate-speech...

One of the strangest lines in the Gospels is uttered by the centurion at the...

Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Introduction to Christianity (2nd edition) by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Ignatius Press,...

If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated...

Pope Francis presided over Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday 2024 before giving...

In his inimitable style, Archbishop Fulton Sheen shed light on an essential part of Easter’s...

Today’s Gospel describes an absence that confounds the disciples, preparing them for the Presence their...

The birds of Jerusalem welcomed brother sun’s rise with morning songs. The shadow cast by...

In an apparent last-minute decision, Pope Francis did not attend the Way of the Cross...

For the Son of God to become man means that it was actually the person...

Silence speaks. On a first date, long periods of silence, say, “This is not going...

I first venerated the cross when I was attending a high-school model UN conference that...

On this Good Friday, as we recall the Passion and Death of Jesus, we gaze...

Holy Week in Seville is one of Spain’s most impressive, picturesque Catholic traditions. The faithful...

Today is traditionally called “Spy Wednesday” because this is the day that Judas Iscariot betrayed...

In the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s collapse on Tuesday, the Archdiocese of...

If Cardinal Mario Grech held nearly any office other than the one he does, his...

Easter in America is fast becoming a hidden feast. I’ve already noted that, unlike Christmas, secular America...

The lives of St. Maximilian Kolbe and Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN, have many similarities:...

For centuries people have used art during Holy Week to meditate on the mysteries of...

Holy Week and Divine Mercy Sunday, present everyone with particular plenary indulgences that everyone has...

The monarchy is a fixture of life in Britain. We record our history through the...

Mother Angelica, foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), the Register and CNA’s parent...

Happy feast of the Good Thief! (More or less.) There are no feast days observed...

Every March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord is celebrated in the...

In our Lenten journey, have we discovered that we are studies in contrasts?  Did we...

Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s...

Holy Week and Easter bring with them liturgies of great beauty and solemnity suitable to...

Nora Creech is a lecturer on the history, science, and pastoral implications of the Shroud of...

The readings for Palm Sunday, or Passion Sunday, are dramatic and demanding. They are excruciating...

Catherine, the Princess of Wales, surprised the world on Friday by publicly announcing that she...

With Holy Week just a few days away, Catholics in Nicaragua are preparing for religious...

Antonio Tomičić was born on March 23, 1901, in the village of Razbojine, Croatia, to...

The Cuba Decides initiative, founded by Catholic opposition activist Rosa María Payá, is calling on...

The Christian life is a long progression of letting go of our own wants and...

In 2019, with the help of Vatican News, the world learned all about the first...

If you ask the fifth-graders at St. Mary’s School, they’ll tell you that the luckiest...

Festive tables overflow with colorful foods, ranging from pastas, breads and desserts, to a cornucopia...

For some centuries, the powerful intercession of St. Joseph was little known. In the 16th...

“St. Joseph was the first adorer,” St. Peter Julian Eymard recounts in his book The Month...

St. Gianna Beretta Molla is a saint for our times. But, not for the reasons...

  Sister Frances Margaret (Fanny) Allen of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph died on...

Our Lord’s foster-father has always held a prominent place in the hearts of the faithful,...

Two priests and cosmologists from the Vatican Observatory have made further progress in developing a...

March 19th is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. People look to the saints as models...

In our Gospel, some Greeks who had come to Jerusalem to worship at Passover asked...

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, provided both diagnoses of and prescriptions for the most...

Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the Archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, marked his 75th birthday Thursday with an...

Of all the relics bequeathed to us by Ireland’s catalogue of saints, the greatest was...

Riley Gaines and more than a dozen other female athletes filed a lawsuit against the...

Every Wednesday, as students stream into St. Patrick High School in Chicago, a staff member...

Come right down to it, the argument is simple to the point of being self-evident:...

In the course of an insightful essay on Vladimir Putin’s challenge to civilization, Italian historian Roberto...

In an interview with EWTN Noticias, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News, Cuban priest...

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is back in the headlines. In February 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that...

Kamala Harris became the first sitting vice president to visit an abortion clinic when she...

Pope Francis announced on Thursday the creation of 10 new study groups, which will meet...

Like Augustine’s Confessions, what is offered here is in a mode of theological memory. [1] It is a...

While the human right of religious freedom is ever crushed in China, Iran, Nigeria, and...

An American diplomatic trip to Saudi Arabia was cut off Monday after a Saudi official...

Are we, on Earth, the lone intelligent inhabitants of this vast universe? The Catholic tradition...

Sparks fly, dropping bright glints of light around the piece of metal. A metal worker...

When I was a student priest studying in Rome, I was invited to become a...

A survey published in 2023 by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate...

A group of two dozen young Catholic pilgrims will walk thousands of miles across the...

One of the most striking passages in all of Scripture is Job’s prayer just after...

The people of God in South Sudan are in urgent need of external support, the...

Doctors in England can no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children to facilitate a gender...

DUBLIN — “The best possible present ahead of Mother’s Day.” That’s how pro-family campaigner David...

NEW YORK — Are faith-based projects such as “The Chosen” not considered for secular awards...

Come right down to it, the argument is simple to the point of being self-evident:...

Five months ago in Gaza City, 18-year-old Suhail Shadi Abu Dawod was waiting for a...

The Bible mentions swallows and sparrows that have an envious place for nesting. They have built...

VATICAN CITY — The Coptic Orthodox Church has confirmed that its decision last week to...

Once, in Israel’s wilderness wanderings, Moses put a bronze serpent on a pole and lifted...

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, says abortion “is murder aggravated by the bond” between...

Voters in Ireland appear to have voted to preserve the country’s constitutional recognition of the...

"The Incarnation is the hinge of salvation” and “Iconoclasm as a denial of the Incarnation is...

National Conservatives made a bet on a major political realignment following the election of Donald...

We rarely see television shows these days where a strong, courageous man rescues a damsel...

Joining the fire service can provide for an exciting career: From rescuing people to putting...

Lent is a beautiful opportunity each year to enter into deeper prayer, fasting, and almsgiving....

Many have heard of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity; they are early saints mentioned in Eucharistic...

Editor's Note: The following homily was preached on the evening of March 6th at St. Dominic's...

From very nearly the beginning, Christianity has wrestled with the question of the body. Heretics...

In March 2022, the late Cardinal George Pell published an at the time anonymous critique of Pope...

Warning: This column contains spoilers.  (ANALYSIS) This year’s Best Picture nominees at the 2024 Academy...

A Biblical verse that can kind of haunt you, if you’re a teacher, says, “for...

The bishops of Mexico have expressed their concern about the possibility that “organized crime and...

The Holy Spirit is the author of holiness and the principal agent of evangelization, and...

The Catholic tradition has much to say about the relation of science to the faith....

The day I first heard the words "Trisomy 18" was the worst day of my...

The French Bishops’ Conference on Monday issued a call for fasting and prayer as the...

One of the more striking aspects about Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin was that so...

On February 25, a twenty-five-year-old member of the United States Air Force named Aaron Bushnell...

On Word on Fire’s Chicago office, my coworkers and I have been driven to distraction...

David Deane is Associate Professor of Theology at the Atlantic School of Theology (Halifax, Nova Scotia)....

There’s a sort of paradox when discussing the secret to sanctity. Saints are so timeless...

The Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII (1502–1585), is used almost throughout the world...

I love St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. It was painful to see it the...

The confrontational behavior by mourners attending a funeral service at New York City’s St. Patrick’s...

There is a beautiful story from the life of St. Francis of Assisi that is...

During evening Mass on Feb. 24, Father Felice Palamara, a parish priest in Cessaniti, a...

In the city of Lackawanna, New York, near Buffalo, there is an incredibly beautiful basilica...

Pope Francis was hospitalized Wednesday morning after a public audience, with the Vatican confirming that he underwent...

As we approach March, a month dedicated to St. Joseph, I can’t help but think about...

“Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of...

Catholic actor Gary Sinise took to social media this week to mourn the loss of...

You’re incredibly beautiful. Did you know that?” I looked up, very much startled. A man...

The demagoguery surrounding last week’s Alabama Supreme Court ruling involving in vitro fertilization (IVF)—incendiary rhetoric being pushed by Democrats to stoke...

On the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the reading for Morning Prayer that comes from...

On January 21, 2021, Pope Francis declared Dr. Jerome Lejeune as “Venerable,” a step in...

The Eucharistic sacrifice is the summit and source of the entire Christian way of life....

Stephen Doran is a permanent deacon (Archdiocese of Omaha), neurosurgeon, and bioethicist. He’s also author...

At least 15 Catholics were killed in an attack during Mass on Sunday in the...

Some two years ago, I attended the Called and Co-Responsible conference at the University of Notre Dame....

Today, high on a mountain, Jesus briefly draws back the veil of His humanity to...

An Alabama Supreme Court decision that established the personhood of frozen embryos drew praise from...

Many people think that the traditional Christian way of interpreting the Bible was very narrowly...

Throughout his theological career, Saint Thomas Aquinas named six reasons why people should pray to...

Archbishop Sergio Fenoy of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz in Argentina signed the edict...

A great deal of ink has been spilt recently about the culture wars on campus,...

I had concluded Holy Mass in a parish and was rushing for my next engagement...

Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he who in his...

Marx and Engels published their Communist Manifesto as the official programmatic statement of the Communist Party—or Communist...

Jerry Trzeciak leads a lot of Catholic retreats. But the participants aren’t your typical parishioners,...

Yes, there is a physical object known as “the Chair of St. Peter.” It is...

For much of the time Matt Lorens worked at Planned Parenthood Federation of America as...

Can one commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In the months of planning leading up to my taking...

Recently, my wife Deborah sent me a YouTube video of Michael Knowles’ speech at a Young...

An eerie silence envelops Kfar Aza, one of the Israeli communities brutally attacked by Hamas on...

The pastor of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City said the church has offered...

Lent is a liturgical season brimming with immense graces. It is a time when we...

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen human embryos constitute children under state statute,...

Everyone knows John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic U.S. president. He overcame a long...

My son is blind, immobile, nonverbal, and hearing-impaired, with multiple brain abnormalities and complex orofacial...

Outside of the miraculous visions at Fatima, the three shepherd children did all they could...

In a significant setback for the Synodal Way project in Germany, the German bishops will...

When a media storm hit last fall after word leaked that a prominent Catholic women’s...

Russian leaders on Friday announced the death of Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition politician to President Vladimir...

Isn’t marriage a trap, mostly for men? Don’t most married couples end up getting divorced?...

Pope Francis paid tribute to Cardinal Ernest Simoni (present at the audience), the Albanian “living martyr”...

Do your Lenten traditions include a spring cleaning of your kitchen?  For our Catholic ancestors,...

The unveiling process for the newly rebuilt spire of Paris’ legendary Notre Dame Cathedral began...

A few weeks ago, the priest gave me the most memorable advice that I’ve heard...

Following a shooting in downtown Kansas City yesterday afternoon during a packed Super Bowl victory...

On the first Sunday of Lent the readings have a baptismal theme. This makes sense, for it...

Has the Vatican’s strategy to contain the controversial German Synodal Way had any effect? We’re...

Louis waits in his room, settled in his black wheelchair, back and head very straight....

The Book of Deuteronomy resounds with Moses’s final counsel to the Israelites before entering the...

On February 15, 2015, 21 Christian workers, 20 of whom were Coptic Orthodox and one...

It’s almost that favorite feast day, when love is in the air, red heart-shaped boxes...

Lent is about going spiritually to the state of the desert, about uniting ourselves to,...

And pray to God to have mercy upon us And pray that I may forget...

This year, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent fall on St. Valentine’s Day. While...

A religious-freedom advocate from Hong Kong is warning that proposed legislation could further restrict religious...

Men and women who are married and who attend church regularly are among the happiest...

Robin DiAngelo, author of the infamous White Fragility and a matchless grifter, recently appeared on a podcast...

For several years, Western media created a false narrative that Poland had descended into an “illiberal,” “anti-democratic,”...

1) Grapevine wreath (our family has done this for years; it's similar to adding hay to...

Pope Francis met with Argentine President Javier Milei in a highly anticipated private audience on...

There were seven. Seven figures above all, with varying influences, some more intentional than others,...

At or near the top of almost any Catholic parent’s list of things they want...

“Fasting is a medicine.” — St. John Chrysostom “The days will come, when the bridegroom...

He should’ve been a cowboy. He should’ve learned to rope and ride. But he didn’t....

The Catholic Church in India has called for observing March 22 as a “day of...

What can we learn today from a leper who kneels before Jesus in the hope...

A religious community of 14 Discalced Carmelite nuns has moved from a busy street in...

Do you know about Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich? Incredibly, God gave this nun the special...

Mother Angelica had the knack for always providing the right advice — including for Lent....

Argentina is living in a situation of eternal crisis, but Mama Antula invites us to...

The Catholic prayer app Hallow announced that its first-ever Super Bowl commercial will air during the big...

On Feb. 8, we celebrate the feast of St. Josephine Bakhita, an African nun who...

“I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!”...

Given how much bad theology there is and how often it seems to corrupt people’s...

There are never enough assisted suicides for the euthanasia movement. So, while they will promise...

On Feb. 7, we celebrate the feast day of Blessed Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, more popularly...

Note: We are sharing this article, originally published in June 2020, for the feast of...

You have died: to what? To sin. You have died to it by baptism, by repentance,...

A religious missionary order in Nigeria is appealing for the safe release of two of...

60,000. It’s a staggering number that’s hard to comprehend. But that’s how many people died...

If you know anything about world religions, then you know that Easter is a big...

Raked by frothing waves and howling wind, the galleon San Felipe rode the merciless Pacific...

St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, is accustomed to its famous next-door neighbor grabbing...