The Great Aunt Who Held My Family Together
COMMENTARY: From a velvet chair, Great Aunt Wladyslawa reminded a crowded room of cousins and kin that family must be ‘nurtured like a plant,’ rooted in Catholic faith and shared tradition.
New Shrine Announced to Honor First US-Born African American Priest
EXCLUSIVE: On Venerable Augustus Tolton, former slave-turned-Catholic priest: ‘He carried his crosses in life quietly and heroically,’ says Bishop Thomas Paprocki.
Southern Poverty Law Center Indicted for Fraudulently Paying Informants Inside Extremist Groups
The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled some traditionalist Catholic groups as hate groups over views related to gender, sexuality, and marriage. No Catholic groups were mentioned in the indictment.
Pope Leo XIV to Youth and Families: ‘Peace Be With You’
In Equatorial Guinea, the Pope told young people and families to let Christ’s light shape a future of love, responsibility, and hope.
German Cardinal Instructs Priests to Facilitate Same-Sex Couple Blessings
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, has instructed priests and full-time pastoral staff to introduce the controversial handout 'Blessing Gives Strength to Love.'
PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV Visits Prisoners, Meets With Families, Says Mass in Equatorial Guinea
The Holy Father is wrapping up his papal trip to the African continent after visiting multiple countries there.
What’s Driving Anti-Christian Extremism in Israel?
Experts say education and law enforcement are needed to stem such incidences.
Why Catholic Media Matters
COMMENTARY: Every radio broadcast, every podcast, every digital stream is a kind of procession where the Word is carried into homes, cars or earbuds.
Taylor Black Sees Endless Possibilities in AI — but Not Without Well-Formed Humans
Catholic philosopher and scholar of human cognition helps his Big Tech colleagues think through timely questions — with the aim of making AI safe and helping humanity flourish.
‘Ecclesiacide,’ Then and Now
COMMENTARY: What Stalin began in Lviv in 1946 — an attempt to liquidate a Church — persists today in Putin’s war on Ukraine.