Forty years ago, Father Stanley Rother of Oklahoma was killed while serving as a missionary in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. In 2016, Pope Francis declared him a martyr for the Faith, and he was beatified in ...
Do YOU know what date Mary and Joseph's engagement is traditionally celebrated? It's Catholic quiz time! If you're a daily or weekly Mass goer or a saint junkie, you know that Catholicism is prevalent in ...
Preparing for World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly on July 25, Bill Dodds writes that the Church has the pontiff’s own grandmother Rosa to thank for this new annual observance. Dodds writes: “Families, neighborhoods, ...
A reader tells Msgr. Charles Pope that their pastor forbid parents and others from taking pictures during their children’s first Communion Mass. She asks, “Is such a rule common or permitted by the Church?” Msgr. ...
Dr. Greg Popcak discusses “Eucharistic coherence,” writing that people of goodwill must see the Eucharist as medicine and the Church as a field hospital. However, he writes, “But as we see in the actual field ...
Jesus sends the Twelve out in groups of two. Their supplies are basic. No food. No money. Not even a change of clothes. Their task. Simple. Go from town to town preaching the Good News of ...
A pandemic and an ongoing national reckoning with systemic racism made for a memorable and at times challenging first year for St. Benedict the Moor Church as a personal parish for Pittsburgh’s Black Catholic community. ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about a recent experience of praying outside an abortion clinic. Another Christian taunted the Catholics in prayer. As the man ranted, young women walked into the abortion clinic. Lopez wrote, “I ...
At the conclusion of Religious Freedom Week, Notre Dame University hosted the inaugural Religious Liberty Summit on June 28-29. The event brought together Catholic and Protestant pastors, Jewish and Islamic scholars, journalists, attorneys and others ...
In his seventh Letter to a Young Catholic, Lenny DeLorenzo reveals the secret to getting to know people: we learn about real people, whom we spend time with, in actual places. He uses the example ...
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