Written in 1885, the Baltimore Catechism had its pilgrim eyes fixed on the world beyond: To be saved meant that the individual Catholic could "attain the supernatural happiness of heaven." Meeting ...

At St. Peter Catholic Church in Fort Yates, North Dakota, on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, there is a buffalo skull next to the tabernacle. When I researched why, I learned that all Catholic ...

In this Sunday’s readings, Matthew shows the way Joseph enters salvation history through his service to his wife, Mary. The fact that women hold central roles in biblical narratives is nothing new.

Are all religions equal? Pope Francis created a stir with some off-the-cuff comments to an interreligious group of young people in Singapore, during his recent trip to Asia. “All religions are paths ...

In 1984, in the heat of the Cold War, leading neoconservative theologian and American Enterprise Institute fellow Michael Novak took to the pages of the New York Times Sunday Magazine to denounce the ...

Thousands of Catholic faithful from different parts of the country begin a pilgrimage, on Friday (10), to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rosary in the municipality of Pungo-Andongo to worship God ...

It was an unusual event. The Salvation Army paraded through the streets of Elmira in silence. The band marched without a drum beating, there was no singing or shouting. Indeed they did not even carry ...