Servant of God Demetrius Gallitzin (1770-1840), Russian émigré and priest, came to be known during his more than forty years serving the area in and around Cambria County, Pennsylvania, as the Apostle ...

I am in awe of Father William Slattery’s command of his subject. He is, after all, covering 1,600 years of Western civilization — a civilization that he argues was “born from the womb of Catholicism ...

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 ...

Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm ...

Servant of God Gertrude Barber (1911–2000) dedicated her life to serving children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families. The daughter of Irish immigrants, and one of ten ...

“There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at ...

There was nothing and no one yet to hear it, only God himself. As animate creatures came into being, they were able to make sounds, and some of them are beautiful, but only human beings have the gift ...

Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around you — all its truths, all its certainties, all its aspirations smashed to meaningless shards. Suppose . . . oh, I don’t know, ...

We shall be deeply interested in one another, as real brothers and friends should be. And so, there will be a real family bond between us—an all-for-one and one-for-all attitude. We will possess that ...

We owe the existence of this celebration on the octave day of Easter to the graced intervention of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, a young Polish religious born in 1905 who belonged to the Congregation ...

Rural upstate New York, where I grew up, offers unique evidence these days about some shifting demographics of the Seven Deadly Sins. Fifty years ago, the area was dominated by family farming, an Air ...

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 ...