Pope Francis says what’s on his mind., especially when he is talking to Church leaders. On September 16, 2016, he addressed  a meeting...

Sunday, September 4, 2016, marks the induction of  Mother Teresa of Calcutta into the Catholic Church's Hall of Fame. Known for her de...

In every era, the Church has had its problems, from resolving the question of  whether Jesus is divine (Council of Nicea,  325) to whether ...

We need more priests. Several studies have been published over the past four decades, and the statistics in one of those reports indica...

Articles in the March 1, 2016, issue of L’Osservatore Romano , generally regarded as a semi-official Vatican newspaper, raised again the qu...

We must be wary of mixing religion and science. On the one hand, the seventeenth century conflict between Pope Paul V/Pope Urban VIII and G...

I believe in praying for vocations to the priesthood. After all, according to the Gospel accounts of Matthew and Luke, Jesus said, “The...