The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing transcendence. And liturgy is more than aesthetics.

The new film ‘Green and Gold’ credits prolific Christian writer and farmer Wendell Berry as its biggest influence. It’s easy to see why.

This special deep dive episode recaps the 2024 Vatican meeting of the Synod on Synodality, featuring interviews with five synod delegates about the tensions and unexpected breakthroughs in the Synod hall—and outside it.

The rapid victory of the Sunni opposition fighters over regular army units loyal to Mr. al-Assad has left many wondering how Syria’s minority faith groups—Alawites, Christians, Shiites and others—will fare as H.T.S. consolidates its control.

In order for the United States to remain “a government of laws, not of men,” the editors write, all officials entrusted with elected authority must recognize the constraints on their own power.

It is no secret that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops receives federal grants to assist in refugee resettlement.

Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his breakaway society, has died.

It has come as a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring workplace marriages.

Pope Francis offered his condolences saying, “In commending the souls of the deceased to the loving mercy of almighty God, I offer my deepest sympathies to the families who are now mourning the loss of a loved one.”

A Homily for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, by Father Terrance Klein