The oldest deck of tarot cards belonged to Italian cardinal Ascanio Sforza. In its earliest incarnation, tarot, or tarocchi, was an Italian card game popular...
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It’s jarring to read lines in the gospel where Jesus tells his disciples they might have to hate their families to follow him (Luke 14:26). This is one of...
Robed figures carrying lighted candles process into a darkened cathedral, followed by a man vested in cope and miter. Chant and a tolling bell fill the grim...
People lived longer back in the days before the great flood in Genesis, so the story goes—a lot longer. The implication is that, closer to the bestowal of the...
These days, when Catholics talk about someone being a saint, this usually has nothing to do with signs or wonders, but with a life of heroic virtue. Further...
As co-founder of both the Catholic Worker newspaper and the movement of the same name, Dorothy Day is probably the most widely-known social justice Catholic in...
With nearly one-third of Americans owning a firearm, the United States ranks first in per capita gun ownership. According to Pew Research, protection is the...
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...
The apostle Paul was a busy man. As well as traveling, preaching, arguing, getting imprisoned, and surviving shipwreck, he also wrote a lot of letters. Over...
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...
