At a Mass for the Jubilee of Youth outside Rome, Pope Leo exhorted over a million young people to be "seeds of hope" and a ...

Surrendering debts and absolving burdens creates room for the hope Francis called “the central message of the coming Jubilee.

Perhaps it is the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, but the Catholic rituals and practices I once scorned are the same ...

"Only through patient and inclusive dialogue" can "a just and lasting conflict resolution can be achieved" in the ...

The ”Bad Guys” films ask, how do we determine who the “bad guys” are? And if you’re marked as “bad” from the start, can you ...

In 'Thoreau’s God,' Richard Higgins takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Thoreau’s extensive work, looking at ...

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Find today’s readings here.

In these dark times, surrounded by death and destruction in Gaza, we hear the command in the first reading, “Choose life.” What are the ways we can do this in a world that seems to have gone mad?

On July 31, Pope Leo XIV announced that St. John Henry Newman, English theologian, educator, and writer who converted to ...

The chair of the USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace put out a statement on July 31 demanding more ...

Maribeth Boelts is the author of 40 books for children, including the award-winning book Those Shoes, with Candlewick Press. She and her husband, Rob, live in Iowa.

Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of Till the Moon Be No More: The Grit and Grace of Growing Older. She lives on the Oregon Coast.