I think that the first time I encountered the word “acedia” was when I first read Josef Pieper’s classic “Leisure the Basis ...

In the late 1970s, music icon Bob Dylan was struggling through a low point in his career. His album “Street Legal” had ...

While Pope Francis' condition has continued to improve, the Vatican announced that he will not lead his traditional Ash ...

In 1915, a group of black Catholics met at a home on Pacific Street in Prospect Heights, across from what is today the ...

Today’s readings reveal how words and actions reveal what lies within us. In Sirach, we hear that “when a sieve is shaken, ...

While many welcome the Trump administration’s attempt to get the country’s finances under control, some of the moveshave had unfortunate consequences.

Although Maryann McMahon is a retired school teacher and no longer in the classroom, she’s still teaching kids. But now, rather than telling students to crack open books, she’s writing them.

Pope Francis' clinical condition continued to improve Feb. 27, the Vatican said, and he had respiratory physiotherapy in the ...

As Pope Francis enters his 14th day at the Gemelli Hospital, now the longest of his four stays at the Roman polyclinic, some ...

A multiyear decline in Christianity in the U.S. may have leveled off, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center. However, the Catholic Church, the survey found, is seeing the greatest net ...

Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Father Emil J. Kapaun, a U.S. Army chaplain who gave his life ministering to ...

I had my throat blessed on Feb. 2. I’ll have ashes placed on my forehead on March 5 — both are sacramentals I first learned ...