Listen on: Apple | Spotify When Catholics argue about the more controversial teachings of the church, it’s not unusual for someone to try to shut the...
Church history
A thousand or so years ago, there lived an Irish archbishop named Malachy. And this archbishop supposedly had a series of visions about popes—past, present and...
For centuries, a consistent commitment to nonviolence was, at best, a marginal position within the Catholic Church. Rather than rejecting violence outright...
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). On Palm Sunday in 1942, a traumatized Jewish child knocked on the...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify Most people who are even a little familiar with church history will recognize the image of Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to a...
In 1550, two Spanish priests were engaged in a heated public debate on a topic of significant moral importance: the rights of Indigenous peoples. Could the...
Many of us have heard the saying that “slavery is America’s original sin.” Robert P. Jones, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Do Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25 because that was the day when the Romans celebrated the feast of...
Women’s religious congregations have a rich treasure that has remained relatively hidden from the rest of the world. Historians and genealogists are only now...
In Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship) Pope Francis calls Christians “to recognize Christ himself in each of our abandoned or excluded...
