The establishment of seminaries was a major initiative of the clerical reform taken up by the Council of Trent (1545-1563) in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. English Cardinal Reginal Pole apparently first used the […]
The fourth and final volume of the remarkable commentary series Fire of Mercy, Heart of the Word: Meditations on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, written by Fr. Simeon Leiva-Merikakis, OCSO, was published recently by […]
Michael D. O’Brien—iconographer, painter, novelist, critic—is the popular author of many best-selling novels, including Father Elijah, Strangers and Sojourners, Elijah in Jerusalem, The Father’s Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, The Lighthouse, and Island […]
The most cherished shrine of the Polish people is the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa which has been home to the revered icon of the Black Madonna since it was brought there by Duke Ladislaus […]
Rhonda Gruenewald is a Houston-based Catholic convert, wife, and mother of two children who founded the organization Vocation Ministry. A former high school English teacher, she has now collaborated with thousands of vocation promoters and […]
Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia released a letter entitled “A Catechesis on the Human Person and Gender Ideology” on August 12. The purpose of the letter, he explained, is to present “the principles of […]
Readers seeking out an existential horror story might not look to Catholic authors and a Catholic publishers. But that is precisely what Fiorella De Maria and K.V. Turley have delivered in This Thing of Darkness, […]
The history of Western art, music, and literature is intimately intertwined with the Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church. Between Catholic patrons supporting the arts, and Catholic artists putting their faith on canvas or plaster […]
Dr. Jeremy Holmes is Associate Professor of Theology at Wyoming Catholic College. After a childhood in rural Arkansas, he earned his bachelors in liberal arts from Thomas Aquinas College in California, his masters in theology […]
The right to life is regarded as a human right—as a right that everyone also views as fundamental—and ultimately it belongs to everyone, at least theoretically. Preborn human beings—even if they were capable of it—cannot […]
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