A California woman believed to have had visions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and other Catholic saints in the 1950s has moved closer to canonization as a saint. The United States Conference of Catholic ...
“Performance art” is the term Aaron Rosen uses in his new book to describe moments in Jesus’ ministry, and it quickly becomes apparent that this use of the term is not at all irreverent. What Would ...
June, the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, emphasizes importance to devotion to the Sacred Heart. St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the “Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” was the ...
The historical sections of the Hebrew Scriptures sometimes read like PG-rated dramas seasoned with a measure of bawdy humor. Today's story from 1 Samuel recounts the second time David refused to ...
On Christmas Eve in 1517, the Blessed Virgin Mary placed the Christ Child in his arms of St. Cajetan during his first Mass in the Chapel of the Nativity. A marble sculpture depicting St. Cajetan ...
Do you ever hear people say things like “that’s her cross to bear” or “everyone has their own cross to bear” or “his illness is a real cross”? I’m not always comfortable with the implications I hear ...
"The Son of God came into this world as a homeless person," Pope Francis said. The comments of Pope Francis, made here in Washington in 2015, came to mind recently as the National Catholic Reporter ...
A ‘Christian Atheist’ joins Ross Douthat. Hosted by Ross Douthat Produced by Emily Holzknecht Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast. Did Jesus actually rise from ...