4 things every candidate for Confirmation needs to hear...

Poland poised to approve new law banning all abortions and protecting unborn children...

Joy is the grown-up version of fun...
Carrie Gress
Shortly after I got married, a good priest gave me some sage advice: look at all your daily frustrations as a source of holiness. Later that day, my husband did something that irritated me, so I said to him through clenched teeth: “You are making me so holy right now.” Of course, this made us both laugh. When my husband and I were married...

What the Devil's attack on gender is really attacking...

In search of Joseph Pearce’s England...

‘The Loser Letters’ debuts at Catholic University of America...
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Olympic gymnast Chellsie Memmel is “on stage in a completely new way” (as she puts it) later this month in the nation’s capital. She’s starring in The Loser Letters, a creative response to “the new atheism” and to a radical secularism that would make religion seem irrational and unworthy of respect, never mind protection...

Who's behind the mysterious Eye of the Tiber?

Jesuits prepare for general congregation, election of new leader...

Of interrupted Rosaries and Guardian Angels...
Rick Becker
When I’m driving to work, I have a choice. I can either turn on the radio and listen to my friends on NPR go blah, blah, blah about whatever – or I can pray a rosary. I confess I don’t always choose to pray, and sometimes I feel justified in that if there’s something hot in the news I want to get the latest on – especially if it pertains to my local community or the Church...

Cosmas and Damian, the amazing twins who both became saints...
Fr. Damian Ference
I was born in 1976, the same year the film “The Omen” was released. My parents decided to name me Damian, not knowing that Damien was the name of the boy-demon in the popular movie. It could have been worse — my dad actually wanted to name me Fabian, but thankfully my mom would have none of it. Needless to say, you can imagine that I got my share of demon and devil jokes as a kid...

Is this Marian apparition a bridge between Lourdes and Fatima?

Holy Father beatifies Bl. Engelmar Unzeitig, killed “in hatred of the faith” in Dachau...

Christians ‘hung on a cross over fire’, steamrollered and crushed to death in North Korea...

A whiff of schism: when different Catholics hold radically different beliefs...
Phil Lawler
At a Catholic parish in Athy, Ireland, a lesbian couple who resigned from parish ministry after entering a legal marriage has returned to active participation—and to loud applause. So now everyone is welcome in St. Michael’s parish, right? Wrong. Anthony Murphy, the editor of Catholic Voice—the man who objected to the lesbian couple’s prominent role in parish life—has received so many threats that he is...

Pope Francis to catechists: Never tire of witnessing to the Resurrection...

God lifted up Bl. Herman the Cripple to scatter the proud in their conceit...
Angelo Stagnaro
I have a great fondness for the saints. And anyone who's sat down and read a hagiography of these blessed people will be overwhelmed, alarmed and grateful at finding a brother- or sister-in-arms. In my research, one particular saint caught my attention. His name is Blessed Herman the Cripple. Yes. Blessed Herman ... the Cripple...

After my mastectomy, how do I dress my new body?
Rebecca Hamilton
This problem of dressing after a mastectomy is becoming increasingly common as more and more women opt out of the additional surgeries and pain of reconstruction, or learn that they aren’t good candidates for it. There are a lot of women like me out there, trying to figure this out. My only wish is that the world would catch up with us...

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