The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is conceptually akin to the building of a church. Further, it reminds one of the miracle of the loaves and...
Church history
What kind of changes has the 20th century brought to Catholics in the United States? If I were a sociologist in 1900 and someone asked me to predict how...
Holy days of obligation-days when Catholics are required to celebrate Eucharist-are a result of tradition, devotion, and church law, and their number has...
“The 40 days of Lent” has always been more of a metaphor than a literal count. Over the course of history the season of preparation for Easter...
“LATE HAVE I LOVED YOU, O Beauty so ancient and so new. Late have I love you!” So prayed the passionate theologian and pastor of the early church, St...
Wine possesses a multi-layered significance that brings Christians into communion with Christ but also with one another, with our Jewish heritage, and with...
The history of Muslim-Catholic relations is one of both confrontation and dialogue. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge once said, "Little progress can...
We owe it to today's immigrants to be honest about the difficulties and prejudices against the huddled masses who came before them. On my father's...
A group of Christians gathers at the Nevada test site to witness against the folly of nuclear weapons. In their prayers, before some of them are arrested, they...
Suppose someone decided to take the Gospels of Christ literally: to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless. What would he or she be like? The...
