"Only through patient and inclusive dialogue" can "a just and lasting conflict resolution can be achieved" in the ...

Perhaps it is the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, but the Catholic rituals and practices I once scorned are the same ...

Surrendering debts and absolving burdens creates room for the hope Francis called “the central message of the coming Jubilee.

In 'Thoreau’s God,' Richard Higgins takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Thoreau’s extensive work, looking at ...

The ”Bad Guys” films ask, how do we determine who the “bad guys” are? And if you’re marked as “bad” from the start, can you ever make good?

On July 31, Pope Leo XIV announced that St. John Henry Newman, English theologian, educator, and writer who converted to ...

In these dark times, surrounded by death and destruction in Gaza, we hear the command in the first reading, “Choose life.” ...

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Find today’s readings here.

The Gospels do not ask questions about happiness and purpose the way some of Wisdom literature does; they present the ...

Maribeth Boelts is the author of 40 books for children, including the award-winning book Those Shoes, with Candlewick Press. She and her husband, Rob, live in Iowa.

This controversy moved the early church to make a dramatic change in Eucharistic practice by moving the celebration out of ...

The chair of the USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace put out a statement on July 31 demanding more ...