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Twice recently Pope Leo XIV has brought up a book that spells out his spiritual MO. The short book, The Practice of the Presence of God by 17th-century lay Carmelite Brother …

The Catholic Church, especially its insistence on human dignity, is a bulwark against the ambitions of tyrants. Catholics across the political spectrum should embrace religious liberty as the foundational right …

From the moment he arrived in El Salvador to work with Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, a program for underprivileged children, “Padre Ron,” now archbishop-elect of New York, seemed to fit in, …

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to articles about Fr. Gary Graf, a Pew study on religious disaffiliation and American impediments to Christian healthcare.  

Blessed Pope Urban V Feast date: Dec 19 Blessed Pope Urban V was born Guillaume de Grimoard at Grisac in Languedoc, 1310. He studied canon law and theology in Avignon …

This is the business of our life: by labor and prayer to advance in the grace of God, till we come to that height of perfection in which, with clean …

One of the things I love about Christmas being celebrated for an octave (or twelve days, or right up until the February 2 Presentation of the Lord if you’re diehard) …

Today is the Third of the O Antiphons, O Radix Jesse (O Root of Jesse). Christ the King, the Lord! Divine Wisdom, Adonai, the powerful God, is at the same …