With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals began the centuries-old ritual to ...

Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by ...

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

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 ...

Ahead of his death in April, Pope Francis directed the Catholic relief organization Caritas to turn the vehicle into a ...

When the cardinals gather in the Pauline Chapel and process to the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to begin the process of choosing a ...

One of the challenges all of us will face as we get older is to remain strong spiritually until the end of our lives. The ...

As we meditate on the implications of the Trinity, may we be inspired to reflect God s self-giving love in our lives and ...

In the document of the Second Vatican Council entitled Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, in article 51, one finds a reference to the concept of the human ...

Intertwined within the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the acknowledgement of her as the “Mystical Rose,” for she is the ...

"The Soul of Nature" is the first thorough survey of Caspar David Friedrich's career to be staged in the United States, and ...