In the third article in his series on the Second Vatican Council’s liturgical reforms, Timothy O’Malley pushes pause on detailing the reforms of the council and instead responds to the latest clash among Catholics in the liturgy wars. O’Malley answers a question
Managing editor Scott Warden writes that from a very young age, he knew what he wanted to be when he grew up: a sportswriter. After nearly 20 years working in the sports department of daily newspapers, God had other plans, and he
The Catholic Church has a treasure chest that may be unknown to some people or rarely opened by others. The treasures inside are the many teaching documents written by the magisterium, the official teaching office of the Church that consists of the
Take away the apostles and it’s unlikely that we would be Christians. Without these faithful and courageous men, we would not know the Good News nor Our Lord Jesus Christ. The original 12 apostles, plus Paul and Matthias, are the foundations of
For many years, faithful Catholics in in communist-ruled postwar Eastern Europe lived amid what is now referred to the Church of Silence. Clergy were targeted, Church activities and schools were shut down or replaced with communist programs. In response to the communist
As the U.S. bishops plan a multiyear National Eucharistic Revival, Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw explores the origins of large-scale events aimed at fostering greater devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Shaw writes: “Pageantry is a standard part of any large-scale
“Synodality is a style, it is a walk together, and it is what the Lord expects from the Church of the third millennium.” Pope Francis said that in November 2019 to a meeting of the International Theological Commission, a prestigious Vatican advisory
If you’ve been Catholic for at least a few years, you will be familiar with a tradition celebrated on Good Friday in churches around the world — the adoration of the cross. But how did this tradition begin, and what does it
One of the great controversies in Church history occurred less than twenty-five years after Our Lord Jesus ascended back to his Father. The dilemma concerned whether or not a non-Jew, a gentile, seeking to become a Christian, had to comply with Mosaic
“Hitler’s Pope.” This is the charge often levelled at Pope Pius XII, who was pope from 1939-58. It is not new, and recently, the Washington Post ran an article repeating the claim that Pius XII was “Hitler’s Pope,” arguing that Pius knew