I -- like so many others -- saw the winter's first snowfalls. Since weather is a perennially popular topic for small talk, it did not take long to see that snowfall receiv ...

My regular visits have guided how I approach my home and family life, which, though not a monastery itself, can emulate the regular rhythm of prayer, work, and fraternity.

Deportation is often seen as a last resort in enforcing immigration laws. It is not considered a punishment but rather an exercise of a government's sovereign right to exclude from its nation whomever ...

Q: I have been hearing that the "norm" in the United States is to receive Communion standing. Does this mean that people who try to kneel for Communion are breaking canon law? (Florida) A: You are ...

Days after a wildfire destroyed their apartment and all their earthly belongings, Raul and Claudia De La Rosa have only one ...

As we get further from the pandemic crisis that gripped the world in 2020, I hope that we are willing to examine our choices ...

Q: Some Evangelical friends were recently quizzing me on the Catholic understanding of baptism. They were especially asking ...

(OSV News) -- As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge ...

Hours after Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego was announced Jan. 6 as the new archbishop of Washington, the prelate ...

The excitement in the air was palpable as more than 17,000 Catholics descended on the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt ...

"All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ for he himself will say, I was a stranger and you welcomed me." -- Rule of Benedict, 53:1 A woman was walking on the grounds of ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While calling himself an "old man" and saying he never expected to be pope this long, Pope Francis said he still has dreams for the future. "We must not stumble upon tomorrow, we ...