After 22 years of silence as a Trappist monk in Iowa, Father Robert Valit, a self-proclaimed extrovert, decided to become a parish priest. Although he valued a life of prayer, Valit realized in 1972 ...
The Church teaches that providing nutrition and hydration is morally required only when these benefit the patient and do not ...
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A new book — not The Da Vinci Code — shows just how much sway the mysterious right-wing Catholic group has — and might have ...
According to visionaries, Our Lady came to Medjugorje to show the faithful the way to peace and help convert lives so as to ...
Survivors are calling for reparations, and the Belgian parliament has reopened investigations into past Church cover-ups. Originally intended to commemorate the 600th anniversary of Belgium's Catholic ...
New Orleans’ Catholic archdiocese nonetheless allowed Hecker to work ... Attorneys for certain clergy abuse victims had learned of Hecker’s confession even before the Chapter 11 filing and requested a ...
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Donald Trump portrays city neighborhoods as ...
The example of Blessed Carlo Acutis -- an Italian boy who is expected to become the "first millennial saint" -- reveals how a ...
Given that his own vocation came through an experience of God’s mercy, Pope Francis chose his motto, “Miserando atque ...
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As I get older, I notice that a number of my friends are spiritual or religious. With my Catholic school background, I often wonder: why don’t I have those fine traits? Maybe it goes back to 5th grade ...
The six-week series is designed to inform and answer questions non-practicing Catholics may have about the faith since they ...
The new play by Omer Abbas Salem, “Happy Days are Here (Again),” which is set at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago in ...