It was the evening of April 15, 2019, and Notre Dame Cathedral — an 850-plus-year-old, stone-and-mortar monument to human ingenuity and religious aspiration — was burning.
Faith
Parents of children with disabilities are a valuable part of the community of faith and are worthy of support and accompaniment from the Church, Peter Ductrám said.
Pope Francis announced that he will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati next year and that the Vatican will host a world meeting on the rights of the child Feb. 3.
On the first day of the public session of the U.S. bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, the importance of the Church’s mission in light of the just-concluded Synod on Synodality, the National Eucharistic Congress, and the recently concluded U.S. election loomed large.
At 92, Sister Demetria Smith is the embodiment of gentleness and joy.
A new documentary film, produced and directed by Dallas native Rich Hull, is a “love letter” to combat chaplains and the work they do—a story at the intersection of the chaos of war and the call to love.
What is a man? That’s a wonderful question that seems difficult to raise without provoking strong reactions. On the one hand, there are polarizing responses whose proponents seem almost to enjoy being maligned, since the hostility they experience enhances their self-image as gutsy truthtellers. On the other hand, there are also anxious responses that compulsively censor or deconstruct every effort to define masculinity, lest they or anyone in their in-group feel lacking and called to grow.
Christians are required to apologize for their faith. They do this in one of two ways.
Just as the nation’s founders relied on God’s providence, so too must all those serving in the U.S. legal profession and government today depend on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, said the homilist during the 72nd annual Red Mass Oct. 6 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington.
Selected from different regions and international Catholic movements active around the world, 20 young people will advise the Vatican on topics related to the pastoral care of young people as well as other issues.