The Classical Girl's Top 10 Holy Works for Holy Week...

Thanks to the Pope’s 2023 visit, this Mongolian man is following his daughters into the Catholic Church this Easter...

The Remarkable Life of Father Stanisław Kicman: Spared in Nazi Massacre to Save Souls...

Worn out before God by the noisy, tiresome digital age...
Elizabeth Scalia
Like many writers, Flannery O’Connor once observed that she didn’t really know what she thought about anything until she’d written about it, and I suspect that became true for many as we became a keyboarding, text-based digital society. In retrospect, some of what we were thinking turned out to have been wrong-headed or plain stupid, but 20 years ago, as the century turned and blogs proliferated, it felt like we were all engaged in the discovery of our own thinking — figuring out who we really were, based on our words, which were revealing us to ourselves.

How Do Hot Air Balloons Steer? (Plus 6 Other Science Mysteries)...

Nikki Haley’s 23-Year-Old Son, Nalin, Becomes Catholic...

Why believers need to worry about dating trends...
Terry Mattingly
Back in the fall of 2022, I was working on a pair of “On Religion” columns linked to the emerging “marriage crisis” trends among young adults in America. That is connected, of course, to the fertility crisis around the world. In the first column — “Old enough? Faith, family and America’s falling marriage statistics” — I talked, logically enough, with sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, leader of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.

Social Media and Personal Research Driving France’s Record Baptism Boom, Survey Reveals...

Antoni Gaudí, ‘God’s Architect’ Who Built Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Basilica, Declared Venerable...

In Historic Move, Burgeoning Diocese of Phoenix Opens New Seminary...

Cardinal Becciu claims new revelations prove prosecutorial misconduct in ‘Trial of the Century’...
John Allen
The Vatican’s “trial of the century,” which ended in December 2023 with guilty verdicts against Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight other defendants for financial crimes, is back in the news this week following revelations in an Italian newspaper suggesting, according to Becciu himself and lawyers for several other defendants, possible prosecutorial misconduct and raising questions about the legitimacy of the results.

The Vatican just announced new policies on your Mass offerings. Here's why...

Imagining the Divine Drama This Holy Week — With the Help of Dorothy Sayers...
David Deavel
Happy Palm Sunday! This year is special for Christians because all the Christian calendars—Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant—have us celebrating Easter on April 20. Thus, all will be meditating on the passion of Jesus Christ this week—his suffering, death, and burial—in anticipation of the celebration of His rising from the dead to new life. The radio plays of Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), a great writer and friend of C.S. Lewis, are a great way to think through the Gospel accounts.

Crucifixion: What Really Happened...
John Clark
On Ash Wednesday 2004, the eagerly-awaited movie The Passion of the Christ hit the screen—and hit its viewers much harder. With ashen foreheads, Catholics across America cringed in their theater seats as they watched the portrayal of the intense whipping, beating, and stabbing of their Savior. Many in the audience openly wept.

We rightly recall Christ’s sufferings during His Passion. But have you ever meditated upon His consolations?
Fr. Victor Feltes
When Jesus went out to pray and await his betrayal at the Mount of Olives, his disciples followed him. Their flesh was weak but their spirits were willing, and in that dark hour he was glad not to be alone. Jesus also had constant recourse to his Father. Though not all of his prayers were immediately granted, he knew his Father always heard him.

This Sunday, the Father Restores His Beloved Children’s Innocence on Calvary...
Tom Hoopes
On Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Year C, we hear the culmination of Jesus Christ’s extraordinary story and witness his grand plan to restore the world to its original purpose and return his people to their innocence. We all know how deep the pain of sin goes. Sin has wrecked every life, and not in some abstract way. We can each name one sin — something we did, or something that someone did to us — that left a wound as fresh today as the day it happened.

Pope Francis Prays at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica Ahead of Holy Week Celebrations...