It's ordination season all over the world. Here's what it looks like in the Archdiocese of Denver...
Seth DeMoor
The exciting proposition of these seven men entering the priesthood is their future spiritual and apostolic impact throughout the Archdiocese. And how many young men will they inspire to discern, pray, and consider God’s vocation to the sacrament of Holy Orders? Through God’s grace...

"Someone was waiting for me, and something changed in me": On Pentecost, Francis offers a manifesto to the Church...
Rocco Palmo
On the Vigil of Pentecost, before a crowd of more than 200,000 in St Peter's Square and halfway down the Via della Conciliazione, the 266th Pope gave the Church what, in essence, has proven to be his first encyclical. For close readers...

That’s one very, very poor headline about the Pope...
Terry Mattingly
As I have stressed many times here at GetReligion, it’s important for readers to understand that reporters rarely write the headlines that accompany their stories. Editors and specialists at copy desks write the headlines. It’s tough work, and I say that as someone who did that job for several years early in my career.

The Sistine Chapel "has become a haven for pickpockets", tour guides warn...

Why we should be cautious about using the Big Bang argument...
Jimmy Akin
Since it was proposed by Fr. Georges Lematre,the Big Bang has been common in discussions of the existence of God. The reasons are obvious. The Big Bang looks like a plausible beginning for the physical universe. Things that begin need causes. The beginning of the physical universe would need a cause...

If more Catholic universities were Catholic, the earth would be ablaze with the truths of our faith...
Fr. C. John McCloskey
In May comes graduation days. Commencement time offers a moment for reflection on the purpose of higher education — especially in our Catholic universities. And every year we watch the Catholic universities to see who the commencement speakers are, and we dissect the ways they honor or detract from a university’s mission.

Vatican spokesman denies media reports, says Pope Francis did not conduct public exorcism on Pentecost...

Did God send the tornado? The problem of natural evils...
Taylor Marshall
When a person murders another person, there is outrage. Many ask, "How could God allow this?" Yet there remains an implicit understanding that humans have free will. When a murderer kills another human, we blame the murderer. But what about natural evils? Natural disasters? A tornado that kills children does not have free will.

"Help! My children aren't Catholic anymore"...

15 wonderful hilltop towns and villages around the world...

A magnificent design points to a magnificent Designer (or, why you can't outrun a cheetah)

An interesting discussion about God with a reasonable unbeliever...
Mark Shea
The notion that the existence of God provides nothing but unalloyed consolation and does not also give reason to have deep fear entirely overlooks the doctrine of judgment in this life and of hell in the next. So the notion of divine intervention purely as a function of wish fulfillment fantasy is massively unreflective, I think.

The Holy Spirit is the Church's towering lighthouse...

Actually, O’Malley is just being O’Malley. Again. Thank goodness.

Pentecost, prudence and immigration reform...

Why do so many people support evil things? Because without repentance, social assurance becomes a desperate need...

“Come Holy Spirit. Enlighten the hearts of your faithful people...”

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