Bishop James Conley. Most Reverend James D. Conley, DD., STL, is the bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. Before his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to the see of Lincoln in September 2012, he served as ...

Dante in the Underworld by George Augustus Wallis. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I was 24, I was asked at the last minute to substitute teach a religious education class at ...

Martin Barillas is a writer and translator, having once served as a U.S. diplomat in Europe and South America. A lifelong Catholic, he resides in Michigan with his wife, Alice, with whom he has four ...

AC Wimmer (刘威猛) is the News Editor for Europe and Asia at EWTN News. The multilingual Australian, raised in Bavaria and South Africa, served as editor-in-chief of several news media outlets. A ...

Woodward Fire – Burnt Trees and Ash, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. We are all familiar with Blessed John Paul II’s description of the Culture of Death in his 1995 encyclical, ...

Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm ...

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Josef Pieper was a German Catholic philosopher at the forefront of the Neo-Thomistic wave in twentieth-century Catholic philosophy. Among his most notable works are The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence ...

The miracle of Lanciano is the first, and many believe the greatest, Eucharistic Miracle of the Catholic Church. Keep in mind that strictly speaking a miracle is an extraordinary event produced ...

What will delight lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien most is the portrait of the man that is drawn in the pages of Holly Ordway’s biography. In the final chapters, she summarizes his life as the extraordinary ...

The role of the godparent for baptism is rooted in the role of the sponsor in the catechumenate, which originated in the early Church. Recall that until the year 313, the Church was under the ...

The Eastern Rite Catholics are part of the Roman Catholic Church, not the Orthodox Church. While the majority of Roman Catholics belong to the Latin Rite, the Eastern Rites provide a special dimension ...