Advent: the season most Catholics would like to honor more appropriately but find it difficult to do so with the commercial Christmas creeping in all around. But when we do celebrate Advent it is...
You could listen to Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey to get you in the Christmas spirit. That might get you into a hot cocoa and snow angels mood, but “All I Want for Christmas is You” won’t prepare...
In my new book, When the Sickle Swings: Stories of Catholics Who Survived Communist Oppression, I document the testimonies of heroic Catholics who kept the faith despite persecution by hostile...
Thanksgiving week is a great time to get nice and cozy with the family on the couch and put on a movie that everyone will enjoy! And while some people have already been diving into Christmas movies...
It’s that time of year once again when we’re frantically searching for the perfect gifts for our loved ones. If you have a Catholic in your life to buy for, we’ve made it easy on you with this...
As the case of famed Slovene priest and artist Father Marko Ivan Rupnik continues to perplex Catholics around the globe, experts have warned that a perceived gap in canon law is preventing him and...
On Monday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis is receiving antibiotic treatment for an inflammation of his lungs, and that while he is in good condition, many of his commitments in the coming...
After receiving a CAT scan on his lungs yesterday, Pope Francis Sunday did not deliver his weekly Angelus address in person, but did so from the chapel inside his residence, citing ‘pulmonary...
On Saturday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had canceled all his meetings for the day due to a cold, and that given his risk of pulmonary complications, he had gone to a Roman hospital for a...
Francis “limits himself to generic phrases on anti-Semitism, refusing to align the Catholic Church in an unequivocal way against anti-Semitism in all the forms with which it’s presenting itself,...