Voices
Timothy P. O'Malley is managing director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life and academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, in Notre Dame, Indiana.
FaithFaith and Reason
The doctrine of Real Presence is important for many reasons, not least because it is through the presence of love itself that every Catholic may discover anew the art of self-giving love.
FaithShort Take
Denying Communion to Joe Biden will not get Catholics back in the pews — or bring together a church whose members are sometimes more likely to bend the knee to an elephant or donkey than to the eucharistic Lord.
FaithFaith in Focus
I needed my beloved son to teach me once more to gaze with desire upon the Blessed Sacrament, to receive with joy the body and blood of Our Lord.
Arts & CultureBooks
What makes 'Mass Exodus' a must-read is careful attention to the qualitative analysis related to disaffiliation from the church.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
The tax credit helps eliminate the stigma of adoption, works on the principle of subsidiarity and prevents adoption from becoming nothing but the sale of children.
“Pope Francis is not wrong to say that Catholics and Lutherans share much in common relative to Eucharistic Faith.”
FaithFaith in Focus
Adoption is sacramental, revealing to humanity the possibility of divine love.
FaithFaith in Focus
How can you say to a complete stranger, a trusted teacher, a college classmate: “We’re infertile”?