Harrison Butker’s commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, has attracted a great deal of attention from the media. But there’s more to the Kansas City Chiefs kicker’s speech than the headlines and soundbites will allow. In particular, he strikes at
Bishop Robert E. Barron said he is in "frank disagreement" with a section of a report from the Synod on Synodality indicating that scientific advances could prompt "rethinking" of the church's teaching on sexual morality.
In an essay titled "My Experience of the
Catholic school leaders in Northern Ireland have called on parents to reject a plan by the British government that they say would "impose abortion ideology" on faith-based schools in the region.
Though Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom, it has been
Pope Francis is breathing easier after undergoing intravenous antibiotic treatment for pulmonary inflammation, the director of the Vatican press office said.
"The pope's condition is good and stable; he has no fever, and his respiratory situation is clearly improving," Matteo Bruni, the director,
The late James Madison Smith Sr. and Catherine "Kitty" Smith, formerly enslaved Catholics, are being recognized as agents of the Underground Railroad. The Smiths, a freed married couple, are buried in St. Louis Cemetery in Louisville in a once-segregated section of the
Be ready for Mass on the First Sunday of Advent! Father Joshua Whitfield reminds us that the message this Advent is to watch and to draw on the liturgical power of the Church to remember to see with “spiritual eyes.” Father Whitfield
Colleen Pressprich explains the Jesse Tree: “Put quite simply, the Jesse Tree is the family tree of Jesus. It traces the lineage of Christ all the way back to Adam and Eve. In other words, the Jesse Tree connects the dots between
An Advent tradition among Eastern Catholics has taken on a deeper meaning amid Russia's war on Ukraine. The Fast of St. Philip is observed by Eastern Catholics and Christians worldwide to prepare for the joy of Christ's birth, beginning prior to Advent
The number of abortions in the U.S. increased in 2021, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. national public health agency, and the agency's last report of such data with Roe v. Wade still in
The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, expressed his happiness at the late-night hostage-exchange agreement reached between Israel and Hamas Nov. 21, and said he hoped it would lead to end to the war which broke out after an Oct. 7
Simcha Fisher writes about Catholic painter and illustrator Jaclyn Warren. The artist and co-founder of the St. Louis IX Art Society is on a mission “to cultivate the sacred arts and promote a culture of Catholic beauty in South Louisiana.” A wife