Francis defends Serra against charges that he was cruel to native peoples.

The New Monastics seek a catholicism more universal than what the Catholic Church normally practices.

It is a Sunday morning in 1992, and I am 10 years old and visiting relatives in the midwest. We head to church, pile into a pew, sit, stand and then sing the entrance hymn at Mass. I happen to look up from my missalette just as two girls who are about my age walk up the aisle; they are wea

I once heard Dorothy say, “When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.”

What is the appropriate age for Catholic children baptized in infancy to celebrate confirmation? It might seem a relatively minor issue. Yet I believe the great efforts the U.S. Catholic Church has put into the new evangelization, its mission to “invite each Catholic to renew their relationshi

For our family, adoption has come to mean much more than what we thought it did on that Sunday afternoon.