“This man ought to be put to death because he is discouraging the soldiers . . . and all the people by speaking such words to them.” (Jeremiah 38:4) My best...
Religion
Essays explaining our faith, including stories about church teaching, Vatican documents, canon law, liturgical theology, and other Catholic topics.
Legend goes that the Virgin Mary gave the rosary to St. Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order. Dominic had been battling the Catharists, heretics who denied...
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible.”...
On May 7, 2025, the mendicant friar Father Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, son of Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Agnes Martinez, became Pope Leo XIV. As...
As a child, Teresa of Avila—the 16th century Spanish saint and mystic—hatched a plan with her brother, Rodrigo. She had been reading about how wonderful heaven...
A popular diagram among conservative Christians depicts a stack of open umbrellas. The biggest one, sheltering the others, is labeled “God.” The next is...
The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost, O.S.A. as Pope Leo XIV represents a profound milestone in the life of the Catholic Church, with a U.S.-born prelate...
Any Catholic with an interest in church politics probably knows about the tradition of “papal smoke” when a new pontiff is chosen. Crowds gather in Vatican...
When you think of the word “college” an 850-year-old all-male institution with an average age in the mid-70s may not be the first thing that comes to mind...
