The Vatican has announced the appointment of Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini as the new papal preacher, succeeding Cardinal ...

Giacomo Puccini, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly,” has been called the world’s most popular ...

Today, I want to be the foreigner going against the grain, giving thanks to God and glorifying him even when it is anathema ...

For just as lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. (Lk 17:25) ...

Will we reach out our hands to help? Will we be ready to rend our garments for them or will we pass them by—glum goats, ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

What caused Dorothy Day to stand out in her time, as it does still, is the way her spiritual life was expressed not only in ...

Missouri bishop retracts ban on ‘All Are Welcome’ and other hymns and calls for synodal process on the issue ...

Missouri bishop retracts ban on ‘All Are Welcome’ and other hymns and calls for synodal process on the issue ...

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, who earlier prohibited specific hymns and composers, has now issued a new decree ...

Dorothy Day called for “a revolution of the heart,” a shift away from self-interest to solidarity. That isn’t accomplished by ...

Small Things Like These” is dedicated to the girls and babies who went through the Magdalene laundries, the last of which closed in 1996.