Constantine promulgated the Edict of Milan in 313. This declared religious toleration in the Roman Empire. More specifically, Constantine’s edict opened the...
Church history
It was Easter in about 450 C.E. Paschal fires dotted the Irish landscape, joining those of Beltine, the sacred festival that opened the pastures. Near the...
Black Lives Matter. In 2013 Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi crafted the phrase. It was a cry, a protest, and a new way of political organizing...
We’ve all heard of Squanto, the English-speaking Wampanoag Indian of Thanksgiving fame. No one forgets how he taught the Pilgrims to survive by adding fish...
Growing up, Pope St. John Paul II was one of my dziadzius, or grandfathers. His spirit infused the house of my Polish grandparents, the sprawling, piecemeal...
While researching the history of Catholic feminism for her first book, Mary Henold, a professor of history at Roanoke College, stumbled across the work of a...
Would it surprise you to learn that some people believe St. Augustine, St. Monica, and St. Cyril of Alexandria were Black? Well, were they? “It’s hard to say...
The whole world had collapsed. Once he lived by the sea, embraced by ancient traditions in a thriving community of thousands. Now he was on the run in mountain...
Making the sign of the cross is a gesture that says, in shorthand, that a person is Catholic. It appears as an icon in popular culture, and as a gesture it is...
September 8 is celebrated by Catholics as the feast of the nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It should also be honored in a special way by all Americans...
