Year: 2026

I am back in Washington after our first-ever Pillar Pilgrimage to Rome. It was, honestly, a time of great consolation for me. The first weeks of Advent are meant, as …

On the centenary of the founding of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, Pope Leo XIV published a new apostolic letter in which he praised Christian archaeology as a work …

“Ain’t nobody got no sickdays?” the bus driver chuckled as he opened the door, welcoming a dozen commuters who stood freezing in the pre-dawn dark. It was the Third Sunday …

“For many Black Catholics, the issue is not whether the Church moved to combat racial harm,” writes Efran Menny. “But rather if the response was sufficient to meet the powerful …

Pope Leo mourned those killed and consoled their families in a Jan. 2 telegram signed by Cardinal Piero Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state.

<p>Bishop Earl Fernandes of&nbsp;Columbus, Ohio, has granted a&nbsp;dispensation from&nbsp;Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation to Catholics without authorization to stay in the United States, as well as those …

In this episode of the Upstream Podcast, Father John Riccardo and I explore a fundamental shift in how church leaders can view and use volunteers, emphasizing that the church is …

When Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to the peasant Juan Diego in 1531, Mesoamerica stood at a crossroads. The Aztec Empire had fallen, yet the religious imagination it shaped remained …