Why Obi-Wan Kenobi loved the Latin Mass...
Philip Kosloski
While actor Alec Guinness is most widely known for his foundational role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original trilogy of the Star Wars films, he was also a Catholic convert. In fact, by the time he portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi, Guinness had been Catholic for around 20 years and would frequently make retreats at Catholic monasteries, witnessing the prayer lives of monks...

‘Pickleball is the Wild, Wild West’ — Inside the fight over the fastest-growing sport in America...

Everything we know about the murder of Deborah Samuel, a young Nigerian Christian who was stoned by her Muslim classmates...

Sicily’s Cathedral of Monreale is the most beautiful church in the world...
Fr. Roger Landry
Pope Benedict XVI has often said that the most effective apologetics for Christianity are the lives of the saints and the art that the Church has grown in her womb. For that reason, the Church must always take both seriously: forming disciples to be saints and creating a culture in which beauty is cultivated and appreciated. When and where the Church has thrived...

The Vatican megaphone was once something to be reckoned with. In the case of Cardinal Zen and Jimmy Lai, its power is fading from disuse...
George Weigel
Tertullian, the first major Christian theologian to write in Latin, is thought to have coined the maxim Semen est sanguis Christianorum, typically (and rather freely) translated as “the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church.” Martyrs, we usually think, are those who shed their blood “in hatred of the faith”: the definition of martyrdom used by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints...

An asteroid as wide as 10 football fields is going to fly past Earth on Friday — close enough to be seen through a good backyard telescope...

Priest-centric pastoral care is unsustainable in most parishes...
Marcel LeJeune
I know the title of this blog will get some people up in arms, but before you get the pitchforks out, bear with me a bit and I will try to make my argument. Before I get to the nitty-gritty, let’s examine a few facts. First, Jesus had active discipleship relationships with 12 men at a time (maximum), during his ministry. He spent a majority of his time with these men and taught them to do the same with others...

‘Reading the Church Fathers’ tells the story of how the past shaped the Church we know today...
Clemente Lisi
The faith Christians practice today has a long and enduring history. It is often something many either ignore or don’t think too much about. Emerging from a small sect within Judaism, early Christianity absorbed much of the religious, cultural and philosophical traditions of the Greco-Roman world at the time. The decades and centuries that followed the crucifixion of Jesus were ones of intense persecution...

Fr. Thomas Joseph White on the universe: ‘Not turtles all the way down, but Persons all the way down’...

DC Archdiocesan Spokesman Hits ‘Send’ Button on Wrong Email, Mistakenly Gives Candid Response on Pelosi Communion Denial...

Some think this generation is the first to get everything right. In 100 years another generation will laugh at them. But the Church, built upon rock, will endure...
Fr. Victor Feltes
There was a serious religious controversy in the very early Church. The Acts of the Apostles records this story which contains important lessons for you and me and Christ’s one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church in every age. In the first century A.D., some Jewish Christians came down to Antioch and were telling the Christians there: “Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice...

Flip the script to proclaim pro-life protections in the law and culture...

‘But only say the word’ — What every Catholic needs to know about receiving Holy Communion...
Amy Welborn
Since the Eucharist and the proper disposition to receive it is in the news, let’s review. The present day encouragement for all to receive Communion, simply because they are Catholic, desire to receive, and judge, themselves, that they should and can based on that desire — well, that’s not consistent with Catholic practice from any point in its history...

These Catholic bishops support Archbishop Cordileone’s ban of Nancy Pelosi from Holy Communion...

Pope Francis advances sainthood cause of Filipino bishop known for bilocation, levitation, healing miracles...

Your concept of atoms is all wrong. This is closer to what they really look like...

The most beautiful public gardens around the world, according to tourist reviews...

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