Headlines are often sensationalistic and even when not, they are still jarring; they can quickly move us to gasping fury or fearful wondering.
In our current Year of Prayer, perhaps they should also be moving us to engage with heaven as we read.
Catholic bioethicists are sounding the alarm about a critical lack of agreement on what constitutes brain death; and the implications for organ donation are "profound," they said.
The National Catholic Bioethics Center, based near Philadelphia, released an April 11 statement on "Integrity in
The new film “Irena’s Vow” brings to life the true story of Irene Gut Opdyke, a young Polish Catholic woman who risked everything to hide Jews from the Nazis during World War II. The two-hour film, based on a Broadway play, hits
On a cold day in January of 2000, Sister Joaquína Hernández Pereira rode in the back of a truck, laden with supplies and religious habits, into a rural town in the mountainous region of Oaxaca, Mexico. She had a near-impossible mission ahead
When Mother Mary Veronica Fitch set out to establish a new religious community, she never imagined that it would one day provide an animal therapy program. People are “willing to extend love to [animals] that they might not extend to people when
For three Franciscans from the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe — postulants Jimmy Beh and Thomas Pack and Father Steven Kuehn — joining the 800-plus-year-old religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi was not just a proverbial leap of faith.
Saint Arnulf of Metz is credited with saying, “From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world.” The famous wordsmith G.K. Chesterton said, “In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe, and the Cross can all fit together.” In the idyllic hills
On the first day of filming for “Irena’s Vow” (Quiver), Sophie Nélisse had to witness a mass hanging. The Canadian actor, 24, has been making movies since childhood. So the scripted summary executions by Nazis — meant to terrorize the population of
For some, the Notre Dame fire was a sign of devastation of faith and Christian values. But for many more in France, it meant awakening of faith on an unprecedented scale.
"The fire gave us all a boost," Father Henry de Villefranche told
Always coinciding with the onset of Spring, and often with Easter, baseball is the sport that uniquely contributes to a sense of rejuvenation and optimistic expectation. Its slower pace and long season also make it more suited than other sports to philosophical