Catholic Church

four months after submitting his mandatory letter of resignation to pope francis, archbishop charles chaput officially stood down as leader ...

Matt Hadro/CNA

an estimated 10,000 pilgrims travelled from both near and far to attend mass at the opening of the national prayer vigil for life celebrated...

Christine Rousselle/CNA

as early as the middle of the first century, a treatise known as the didache began to be circulated. the word means “teaching.” attested in ...

C C Pecknold

around 10,000 pilgrims have attended mass at the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception ahead of the march for life in...

Luke Coppen

graveyards are, for those of a sombre bent, a useful way of reflecting on mortality. and the older they are, the better, though there’s an a...

Melanie McDonagh

lorenzo dow (1777-1834) was the forerunner of that archetype of american frontier lore, the wandering preacher. born in connecticut, his ear...

Charles Coulombe

cryptic across 5 cutting hair first, we become carmelites (11) 7 is muse of magic lionized? (4) 8 book airline to hawaii in front of thousan...

Alun Evans

there is no relationship this side of eternity quite like sacramental marriage. as cardinal robert sarah reminds us in his new book on the p...

The Catholic Herald

our collect for the 3rd ordinary sunday in the novus ordo was in the 1962 missale romanum and the 8th-century liber sacramentorum engolismen...

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

when gauguin portraits ends its run at the national gallery this month, the artist will have emerged as a serious portraitist as well as a p...

Lucien de Guise