Each year, on Feb. 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, is observed, marking 40 days after Christmas. This day ...
Sunday, Feb. 2, is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Mass readings: Malachi 3:1-4; Psalm 24:7, 8, 9, 10; Hebrews ...
The Anglican Communion's recently released draft measures attempt to handle divisive contemporary issues such as ordination ...
The chiastic pattern I’d come to love in Scripture also shows up in God’s design for aging. As a self-professed Bible nerd and a lover of symmetry, no discovery has made me happier than that ...
The Church celebrates the Sunday of the Word of God this week, and Msgr. Joseph Prior shows how the Scriptures are integral to every Mass. In the words of the Bible, God mysteriously speaks to us in ...
The Church is not a democracy. Our beliefs and our leaders, for instance, are not determined by popular vote. Yet there are many Catholics who seem to be as apathetic about their Church as millions of ...
The Supreme Court of Texas just heard oral argument in a case challenging a remarkably punitive and malicious attack on religious liberty by the state of Texas. That attack isn’t just dangerous ...
We are made for something else, for gratitude, for faith and for communion. Whether you’re making bank from a deal related to your name, image, or likeness, or you’re likely to be confused for ...
One Sunday, at Communion time, her 3-year-old granddaughter wanted to accompany Grammy to Communion. When Copenhaver explained that she didn’t go, her granddaughter leaned in, nose-to-nose with ...
Editor’s Note: In his column “Communion and Mission,” Father John Paul Erickson will explore the meaning, structure and rituals of the Mass and other liturgies and how they relate to living Christian ...
He also met with the pope in October 2021 as conservative Catholic bishops were mulling whether he should be able to receive communion due to his pro-abortion rights stance. Biden, at the time, said ...