Christianity has always emphasized faith as a person’s life-defining response to Jesus Christ. Early Christians put their deepest convictions about God...
Church history
Discover U.S. Catholic articles on church history that highlight social justice, reform, and the diverse voices that have shaped Catholic tradition.
To our modern ears the idea of heresy seems quaint and medieval—involving technical arguments about abstract matters. But I contend that heresy and its cousin...
Catholics need to lighten up and see the bright side of sometimes being the butt of jokes. It wouldn’t hurt to laugh at ourselves once in a...
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), whose members are commonly known as “Lefebvrites” after their founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, is a group of about...
1760s-70s:Inventions of the “spinning jenny,” “water frame,” and “spinningmule” replace handwoven textiles—and workers—in...
With the middle ages came the imperial papacy, the rise of powerful feudal lords with secular interests, and a contest over who ultimately controlled the...
How dissenters from Galileo to John Courtney Murray have helped the church to see more clearly. Dissentt! It is not a nice word. It makes you think of other...
What does it mean to be a “doctor of the church”? Who has been designated this title and why? Who are the doctors of the church? A doctor of the...
The development of Christian family values is a central aspect of Christianity's ongoing self-interpretation in the 20th century. That development is...
Sometime in the late 12th century a monk named Guigo, the second prior of the monastery of the Grand Chartreuse in France, wrote to his friend Gervase about...
