God’s gaze looks past what we often define as “appealing” outward appearances of dress, ethnicity, race, or physical features ...

We believers cannot answer our own questions, at least not to our satisfaction. But we equally cannot stop asking those questions, and that is what makes life worth living.

As readers mark the centennial of the Sheed & Ward publishing house, we celebrate what “the Sheedwardians”—as that unlikely ...

Cardinal Dominique Mathieu said he arrived in Rome March 8 “not without regret and sorrow for our brothers and sisters in ...

Rahi, who rushed to help parishioners wounded by Israeli fire, “a true shepherd, who always stayed beside his people, with the love and sacrifice of Jesus the Good Shepherd.” ...

The Vatican has published the final report of the synod study group examining women’s participation in the Church, which calls for expanded roles for women in Church governance and leadership in roles ...

In the German city I live in, the pre-Lent celebrations of Karneval are legendary. Think Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but an entire week long and with ...

When William R. Burrows died last week, many a theologian and missionary remembered him as an important voice—and a valuable intellectual support for many decades—for his work in publishing and ...

A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game—it’s sickening,” Cardinal Blase Cupich said.

Rules are (despite what rebellious teenagers believe) good and necessary. Without rules, those same teenagers wouldn’t have the freedom to be rebellious. The English author G. K. Chesterton wrote, ...

Pope Leo XIV expressed his “deep sorrow” for a Lebanese Maronite Catholic priest who was killed in southern Lebanon when an ...

As bishops and archbishops from the worldwide Anglican Communion sever links with England's first female archbishop of ...