The cumulative weight of the Gospels leans in the direction of empathy for and solidarity with whoever is most in need of ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

Coming up in less than a month is Pentecost Sunday. June 8, to be exact. This is the day when some in the Christian community celebrate the coming of the ...

Pope Leo XIV has announced his motto and coat of arms – a long-held tradition for those in the ranks of bishops, cardinals ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13). This verse of the Bible, like many other similar verses, captures the ...

Pope Leo XIV has announced his motto and coat of arms – a long-held tradition for those in the ranks of bishops, cardinals ...

The choice of symbols and words reflects ... The Trinity is the Christian concept that God is not a single person but three – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – united in a single divine and ...

1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ... the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent the mystery ...

I’ve been writing about the themes in St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.” We have reached the point where St. John ...