Neirfy‘Notre Dame Gargoyles’ COMMENTARY: Notre Dame’s gargoyles, flying buttresses and open spire reveal how the great cathedrals united engineering, artistry and theology into a single vision reaching toward heaven.

It is strange the way a cruel word can inflict a wound that won’t heal.   Behind us at the pizzeria last week were a quartet of old ladies playing …

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do. — Servant of God Dorothy Day

Hubert van Eyck, “Adoration of the Lamb” (detail), Ghent Altarpiece, ca. 1429 COMMENTARY: A good shepherd must be prepared to die for his sheep.

In his second and final address this morning in Acerra, a southern Italian city known for its pollution, Pope Leo XIV called for individual responsibility and conversion to counter environmental …

Bishop Robert Brennan carries the Blessed Sacrament during a Eucharistic procession at Louis Armstrong Stadium on April 20, 2024. The 2026 Eucharistic pilgrimage will launch in St. Augustine, Florida, where …