By Tito Edwards | What Is The Divine Worship Mass (DWM)? – Shane Schaetzel at Complete Christianity +1 God’s Garbage People: The Christians Of Egypt’s Trash Heaps – Matthew Schmitz at First...
By Lauretta Brown | The question of whether or not there is room in the Democratic party for candidates with a pro-life stance came up during the fifth Democratic presidential debate Wednesday. Sen...
By Michael Pakaluk | It’s all about finding the determining principles, St. Thomas Aquinas would say. In practical matters, you must be familiar with the right principles and recognize when they...
By Msgr. Charles Pope | The books of First and Second Maccabees, which we read every year at this time in the Divine Office, are especially pertinent for us today, when religious syncretism and...
By Joseph O’Brien | The faith-based health-care community in the United States was dealt a double blow with twin rulings coming out of courts in Washington state and New York regarding...
A negligent and selfish culture of food waste is fueling the global hunger crisis, damaging the lives of individuals and preventing the progress of all people, Pope Francis said.
A board member of the Vatican’s financial watchdog has resigned in the wake of a Vatican police raid that resulted in the agency’s suspension from the global communications network of financial...
Interreligious dialogue is an important way to counter fundamentalist groups as well as the unjust accusation that religions sow division, Pope Francis said.
Although people may have different ways of praying or of serving their parish or the poor, the Catholic Church needs laity, priests, religious, parishes and lay movements to collaborate in order to...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Erin Scott, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A federal judge Nov. 20 temporarily blocked the executions of four federal death-row inmates scheduled for December and...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Marcelo Perez del Carp By Manuel Rueda A church located on the outskirts of Bolivia's capital city became an improvised morgue Nov. 20, following another deadly day of protests in...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden BANGKOK (CNS) -- Missionaries are not mercenaries, but beggars who recognize that some brothers and sisters are missing from the community and long to...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden BANGKOK (CNS) -- Calling migration "one of the principal moral issues" facing humanity today, Pope Francis thanked the government and people of...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Michael Hoyt, Catholic Standard By Mark Zimmermann LEONARDTOWN, Md. (CNS) -- In the dark of night June 17, 1887, a mob lynched Benjamin Hance, hanging the 22-year-old African...