We sometimes say of people that they’ve been “to hell and back.” Christianity says the same thing about our Savior. The statement is found in the Apostles’...
Religion
Essays explaining our faith, including stories about church teaching, Vatican documents, canon law, liturgical theology, and other Catholic topics.
Catholic Dalits (untouchables) in India are divided over how to improve their lot. Franklin Caesar Thomas and R. L. Francis both attend Mass at Sacred Heart...
The Rev. John Yesunatha Das, a Pentecostal Pastor, calls himself “buffalo color”—black. Though his wife is Brahmin, their daughter Feba inherited...
In today’s diverse world, most Catholic colleges and universities are home to several religious denominations, including Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism...
A growing number of Muslim students are putting their faith in Catholic universities. As a senior at Loyola University in Chicago, Mariam Choudhry is well...
When Catholics hear the word evangelization, we tend to think of Protestants. This is not surprising. They have been highly visible in spreading the gospel of...
The easy answer to that question is, we, the church, did. The feasts and seasons of the liturgical year all developed from the church’s desire to remember...
You won’t find the phrase “original sin” in the Bible. The story of humanity’s “fall” in Genesis 1 doesn’t use the term, and St. Paul, one of the church’s...
Our understanding of priests, bishops, and deacons has changed dramatically in the church’s long history, says historian Gary Macy. In this web-only...
After giving one of the three plenary addresses on the Eucharist at a gathering of the Catholic Theological Society of America in 1997, church historian Gary...
