This Sunday’s readings call the faithful to reconsider the most holy body and blood of Christ in light of extreme divisions facing our country and world. This Sunday, the readings draw out three ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday.

Good Friday is terrible, but it is also dramatic and full of passion. Easter Sunday is triumphant, radiant, and full of song.

"Are you satisfied?" A bishop or his representative asks some version of that question to each person who wants to make vows as a religious. The intent is to be certain that the person is acting in ...

(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV told United States Catholic bishops last week that “the church cannot be silent” in the face of the Trump administration’s brutal mass deportation efforts. The day before, Leo ...

Sunday, June 2, is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Mass readings: Exodus 24:3-8; Psalm 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18; Hebrews 9:11-15; Mark 14:12-16, 22-26. On this solemn feast, we ...

François Turretin (1623-1687) was a Reformed Protestant theologian and was generally considered to be the best Calvinist apologist besides John Calvin himself. In his primary work, Institutes of ...

In many places today, our understanding of the gospel is shaped by an idea of escape—as if the main goal of salvation is to leave this world and go to heaven forever. It is true and precious that ...

The risen Christ is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Aloysius Church in Great Neck, N.Y. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature ...

Three books on ministry and church life to read this month. Justin Whitmel Earley, The Body Teaches the Soul: Ten Essential Habits to Form a Healthy and Holy Life (Zondervan, 2025) When I was in high ...

(RNS) — Catholics processed in prayer had hoped to send eight people into a Chicago-area ICE facility to distribute Holy Communion. The church was not silent Saturday (Oct. 11) near Chicago, as ...