The Absence of Charity...
What happens when you encounter someone who appears absent from virtue? A central premise of this question focuses on how we treat one another with respect and whether we recognize the dignity in one another, made in the image and likeness of God. Within every human being, there exists a body and a soul that, because of their development...
The Prayer of Kings, It’s All Different Now, Rules of the Dining Room...
Earlier this week was the feast of St. Edward, King of England, known as the Confessor, as opposed to his uncle, also king, also named Edward, but known as the Martyr. For reasons I doubt need explaining, I have a particular devotion to St. Edward. This year his feast fell on a travel day...
Should the Chalice Be Available at Mass? New Limits on Lay Access Spark Debate...
Should laypeople be allowed to drink from the chalice during Communion? Bishop Michael Olson of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, brought renewed attention to this topic on Oct. 1 when he published a pastoral letter limiting the availability of the chalice to certain occasions throughout the year, including Holy Thursday, the Easter Vigil, Corpus Christi, the Chrism Mass, ordinations, and Masses at convents and retreat centers.
Becoming a Sommelier of Life...
By a beautiful natural plan, we only grow into our true selves through experience. But not just any experiences will do. They must be of a certain kind, beginning with those fashioned by our parents and educators, and continuing through life in experiences we craft with mentors, family, and friends. This is nowhere truer than in the crucial realm of what brings us pleasure, or not...
Questions for Anyone Planning to Mark the Advent Season by Watching a Snuff Film...
Who Is Dr. Luigi Carbone, Pope Leo XIV’s Personal Physician?
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10 Things You Should Know About Luke’s Gospel...
Luke begins his Gospel by addressing a man named Theophilus and explaining that he has carefully investigated the events surrounding Jesus so that Theophilus might “know the truth concerning the things of which you have been informed.” This narrative is continued in the Acts of the Apostles, which begins by harking back to the Gospel: “In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach ...”
St. John of the Cross: The Man Behind the ‘Dark Night’...
This year, the Catholic Church is celebrating St. Francis of Assisi. There are pilgrimages, celebrations and commemorations marking 800 years since the death of the beloved Franciscan saint. But 2026 is also a major year for another religious order — and another saint whose name may be less familiar...
Catholic Social Thought: An Election Primer...
The Church has always taught that the Gospel bears social implications, shaping how Christians live in the world. Catholic Social Teaching (CST), however, developed only when the fabric of Christendom, the legacy of Christian culture, had worn thin. Political revolutions overturned longstanding monarchies aligned with the Church...
Historians, Here Are 4 Reasons You Should Stop Using CE and BCE...
October Is Ablaze With Saints...
3 Threats That Can Actually Finish Your Parish...
Cardinal Tagle Elected New Dean of the College of Cardinals...
Our Spiritual Wedding Garment...
God infuses our souls with sanctifying grace through the Sacraments, beginning with Baptism. We renounce Satan, profess our faith in Christ, and are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The Eucharist nourishes our life of grace, while Confirmation brings a special outpouring of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit...
A Near Miss with a Bar Fight...
When I was the director of youth and young adult ministry for the Archdiocese of Denver, I organized a Theology on Tap where my bishop spoke about abortion. One of the patrons at the pub, who apparently wasn’t there for our event, started to heckle him. My wife decided to confront him. I think she wanted to see how tough I was. I didn’t predict that confrontation would end well...
The Pope Who Did Hard Time...
Callistus I (pope from 217-222, also spelled Callixtus) didn’t have it easy. He was a slave who lost all the money entrusted to him, ran away and was caught, was sentenced to hard labor for starting a fight, faced harsh criticism from some of the leading minds of the early church, endured a schism, and, to top it all off, saw his story written by one of his bitterest enemies...
Caesar and the King: A Reflection on the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
The Lord is king over all the earth, as we sing in today’s Psalm. Governments rise and fall by His permission, with no authority but that given from above. In effect, God says to every ruler what He tells King Cyrus in today’s First Reading: “I have called you ... though you knew me not.” The Lord raised up Cyrus to restore the Israelites from exile, and to rebuild Jerusalem...
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Catholic Schools Expecting Windfall of Scholarship Money From New Tax Credit...
Many parents who want to send their children to Catholic schools, or who already do, will soon be able to tap into the billions of dollars in tuition aid in what the U.S. bishops are calling a “transformative” expansion of school choice across America. Under a new federal tax credit program that takes effect on Jan. 1...
Pope Leo XIV Calls the Death Penalty ‘Inadmissible’ After Announcement of Public Execution in US...
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The Great Feminist Heist...
Years ago, I lived in Rome. It was a remarkable, intense, and wondrous time. Each morning, I woke up to the thrill of getting to walk its streets of history, discovering new locations, stories, and saints who had been its previous residents. The city has a darker side, however, a pervasive culture of crime, to which I also had to quickly adjust...
AI and Consciousness: Stranded in Eden, Once More...
This Sunday, Heaven: God Invites Everyone — But We Have to Change...
Jesus will go to the cross for us, and we will die, too, but God the Father wants us to know that when it’s all over, we are invited to a big wedding feast in his Son’s honor. The Gospels we hear at Sunday Masses in October and November focus on what Jesus said between Palm Sunday and Holy Thursday — when he urgently told stories that define our lives.
Vatican: We Recognize Only the Knights of Malta, Holy Sepulchre and These 5 Pontifical Orders...
Vatican Confidential, a New Way of Being Synod, and Merch Wars...
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Dressing for the Feast: A Reflection on the Upcoming 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
- St. Linus (67-76)
- St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
- St. Alexander I (105-115)
- St. Sixtus I (115-125)
- St. Telesphorus (125-136)
- St. Hyginus (136-140)
- St. Pius I (140-155)
- St. Anicetus (155-166)
- St. Soter (166-175)
- St. Eleutherius (175-189)
- St. Victor I (189-199)
- St. Zephyrinus (199-217)
- St. Callistus I (217-22)
- St. Urban I (222-30)
- St. Pontian (230-35)
- St. Anterus (235-36)
- St. Fabian (236-50)
- St. Cornelius (251-53)
- St. Lucius I (253-54)
- St. Stephen I (254-257)
- St. Sixtus II (257-258)
- St. Dionysius (260-268)
- St. Felix I (269-274)
- St. Eutychian (275-283)
- St. Caius (283-296)
- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
- St. Eusebius (309 or 310)
- St. Miltiades (311-14)
- St. Sylvester I (314-35)
- St. Marcus (336)
- St. Julius I (337-52)
- Liberius (352-66)
- St. Damasus I (366-84)
- St. Siricius (384-99)
- St. Anastasius I (399-401)
- St. Innocent I (401-17)
- St. Zosimus (417-18)
- St. Boniface I (418-22)
- St. Celestine I (422-32)
- St. Sixtus III (432-40)
- St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)
- St. Hilarius (461-68)
- St. Simplicius (468-83)
- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
- Anastasius II (496-98)
- St. Symmachus (498-514)
- St. Hormisdas (514-23)
- St. John I (523-26)
- St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)
- Boniface II (530-32)
- John II (533-35)
- St. Agapetus I (535-36)
- St. Silverius (536-37)
- Vigilius (537-55)
- Pelagius I (556-61)
- John III (561-74)
- Benedict I (575-79)
- Pelagius II (579-90)
- St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)
- Sabinian (604-606)
- Boniface III (607)
- St. Boniface IV (608-15)
- St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)
- Boniface V (619-25)
- Honorius I (625-38)
- Severinus (640)
- John IV (640-42)
- Theodore I (642-49)
- St. Martin I (649-55)
- St. Eugene I (655-57)
- St. Vitalian (657-72)
- Adeodatus (II) (672-76)
- Donus (676-78)
- St. Agatho (678-81)
- St. Leo II (682-83)
- St. Benedict II (684-85)
- John V (685-86)
- Conon (686-87)
- St. Sergius I (687-701)
- John VI (701-05)
- John VII (705-07)
- Sisinnius (708)
- Constantine (708-15)
- St. Gregory II (715-31)
- St. Gregory III (731-41)
- St. Zachary (741-52)
- Stephen II (III) (752-57)
- St. Paul I (757-67)
- Stephen III (IV) (767-72)
- Adrian I (772-95)
- St. Leo III (795-816)
- Stephen IV (V) (816-17)
- St. Paschal I (817-24)
- Eugene II (824-27)
- Valentine (827)
- Gregory IV (827-44)
- Sergius II (844-47)
- St. Leo IV (847-55)
- Benedict III (855-58)
- St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)
- Adrian II (867-72)
- John VIII (872-82)
- Marinus I (882-84)
- St. Adrian III (884-85)
- Stephen V (VI) (885-91)
- Formosus (891-96)
- Boniface VI (896)
- Stephen VI (VII) (896-97)
- Romanus (897)
- Theodore II (897)
- John IX (898-900)
- Benedict IV (900-03)
- Leo V (903)
- Sergius III (904-11)
- Anastasius III (911-13)
- Lando (913-14)
- John X (914-28)
- Leo VI (928)
- Stephen VIII (929-31)
- John XI (931-35)
- Leo VII (936-39)
- Stephen IX (939-42)
- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
- John XII (955-63)
- Leo VIII (963-64)
- Benedict V (964)
- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
- Benedict VII (974-83)
- John XIV (983-84)
- John XV (985-96)
- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
- John XVII (1003)
- John XVIII (1003-09)
- Sergius IV (1009-12)
- Benedict VIII (1012-24)
- John XIX (1024-32)
- Benedict IX (1032-45)
- Sylvester III (1045)
- Benedict IX (1045)
- Gregory VI (1045-46)
- Clement II (1046-47)
- Benedict IX (1047-48)
- Damasus II (1048)
- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
- Nicholas II (1058-61)
- Alexander II (1061-73)
- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
- Blessed Urban II (1088-99)
- Paschal II (1099-1118)
- Gelasius II (1118-19)
- Callistus II (1119-24)
- Honorius II (1124-30)
- Innocent II (1130-43)
- Celestine II (1143-44)
- Lucius II (1144-45)
- Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)
- Anastasius IV (1153-54)
- Adrian IV (1154-59)
- Alexander III (1159-81)
- Lucius III (1181-85)
- Urban III (1185-87)
- Gregory VIII (1187)
- Clement III (1187-91)
- Celestine III (1191-98)
- Innocent III (1198-1216)
- Honorius III (1216-27)
- Gregory IX (1227-41)
- Celestine IV (1241)
- Innocent IV (1243-54)
- Alexander IV (1254-61)
- Urban IV (1261-64)
- Clement IV (1265-68)
- Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)
- Blessed Innocent V (1276)
- Adrian V (1276)
- John XXI (1276-77)
- Nicholas III (1277-80)
- Martin IV (1281-85)
- Honorius IV (1285-87)
- Nicholas IV (1288-92)
- St. Celestine V (1294)
- Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
- Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04)
- Clement V (1305-14)
- John XXII (1316-34)
- Benedict XII (1334-42)
- Clement VI (1342-52)
- Innocent VI (1352-62)
- Blessed Urban V (1362-70)
- Gregory XI (1370-78)
- Urban VI (1378-89)
- Boniface IX (1389-1404)
- Innocent VII (1404-06)
- Gregory XII (1406-15)
- Martin V (1417-31)
- Eugene IV (1431-47)
- Nicholas V (1447-55)
- Callistus III (1455-58)
- Pius II (1458-64)
- Paul II (1464-71)
- Sixtus IV (1471-84)
- Innocent VIII (1484-92)
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
- Pius III (1503)
- Julius II (1503-13)
- Leo X (1513-21)
- Adrian VI (1522-23)
- Clement VII (1523-34)
- Paul III (1534-49)
- Julius III (1550-55)
- Marcellus II (1555)
- Paul IV (1555-59)
- Pius IV (1559-65)
- St. Pius V (1566-72)
- Gregory XIII (1572-85)
- Sixtus V (1585-90)
- Urban VII (1590)
- Gregory XIV (1590-91)
- Innocent IX (1591)
- Clement VIII (1592-1605)
- Leo XI (1605)
- Paul V (1605-21)
- Gregory XV (1621-23)
- Urban VIII (1623-44)
- Innocent X (1644-55)
- Alexander VII (1655-67)
- Clement IX (1667-69)
- Clement X (1670-76)
- Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)
- Alexander VIII (1689-91)
- Innocent XII (1691-1700)
- Clement XI (1700-21)
- Innocent XIII (1721-24)
- Benedict XIII (1724-30)
- Clement XII (1730-40)
- Benedict XIV (1740-58)
- Clement XIII (1758-69)
- Clement XIV (1769-74)
- Pius VI (1775-99)
- Pius VII (1800-23)
- Leo XII (1823-29)
- Pius VIII (1829-30)
- Gregory XVI (1831-46)
- Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)
- Leo XIII (1878-1903)
- St. Pius X (1903-14)
- Benedict XV (1914-22)
- Pius XI (1922-39)
- Pius XII (1939-58)
- St. John XXIII (1958-63)
- St. Paul VI (1963-78)
- John Paul I (1978)
- St. John Paul II (1978-2005)
- Benedict XVI (2005-2013)
- Francis (2013-2025)
- Leo XIV (2025—)