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Perhaps we, enslaved as we are to the logic of violence, are looking at the image of violence and trying to solve it or even to turn it into a s…
Pope Leo turns 70 on Sunday. How will he celebrate his big day? And how has the church celebrated past popes on their natal feasts?
A Homily for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
An exclusive conversation with Father James Martin, Gerard O’Connell, Colleen Dulle and Sebastian Gomes about the future of synodality in the U.…
Pope Francis has condemned surrogacy as a form of “false compassion.” Now, in Italy, engaging in surrogacy in another country, even where it may…
In an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, Cardinal Cupich says young Catholics will look back at the synod as “one of the most historic m…
Welcome to the Wedding of the Sea in Atlantic City.
A conversation with Rachel L. Swarns, the author of "The 272: The Families Who were Enslaved and Sold to Build The American Catholic Church"
Global reaction among bishops to the Vatican’s declaration that priests may now bless same-sex couples appears most divergent in some European a…
Friends and colleagues remembered Richard Gaillardetz, who died on Tuesday, as a perceptive theologian, mining in his talks, articles and books…
Vatican diplomacy has as its primary goal peace through dialogue, which runs counter to the complex dance of pressures and negotiations that nat…
The new rector, Mark Lewis, S.J., also opened up about the Gregorian's upcoming merger with the Pontifical Biblical and Oriental Institutes.
Celestine V resigned from the papacy in 1294, the last pope to do so voluntarily before Benedict XVI. Francis, in his homily, praised him for th…
According to three sources, it was significant that Francis called on Christians and the church to give witness to Jesus “not with theoretical c…
For a variety of reasons, “especially in relation to the political situation” in the United States, the Legionaries of Christ university in Rome…
China has gained international prestige because of its relations with the Vatican. The Holy See should now seek to obtain more concrete results…
It is some comfort to recall that Catholics have already survived many difficult periods like our own.
“The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need to ensure the necessary protection for refugees.”