COMMENTARY: The Holy Father’s use of the optional Mass during Ordinary Time should spur priests worldwide to do the same.

1285 Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the "sacraments of Christian initiation," whose unity must be safeguarded. It must be explained to the faithful ...

Our salvation is a free gift from God purchased by Christ. We cannot earn heaven least we boast (Ephesians 2:8). We are saved through Christ by believing in Christ. But what is "believing?" ...

Pantomime pageantry and Satanic provocation is all well and good, but there’s deeper, more subversive purpose in Ghost’s ...

Open heartsI read Peter Marty’s column about Eden Murphy, a teenager born with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with an ache in ...

There’s something magical about pushing your cart through the distinctive red-arched entrance of The Salvation Army Family Store on Kidder Street in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, knowing that for ...

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul thrift store isn’t just another secondhand shop – it’s the mothership of bargain hunting ...

Concluding his reflection, Pope Leo invited the faithful to entrust themselves to the Blessed Virgin Mary, “who generously ...

Father Joshua Whitfield of Dallas, Texas spoke to OSV News after the devastating flash flooding in Texas on July 4.

STANTON — A Madison woman was denied a probation request in Stanton County District Court on Monday for her latest drunken driving conviction. Heavy rainfall, intermittent hail and strong winds moved ...

Those the church rejected were composed much later, which, as Pagels knows, automatically raises questions about their ...

As the dominant faith and worldview at the country’s founding, Christianity played an indelible role in its early character, ...