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Christina MacDougall places a wedding band on Julio Prendergast's finger as Msgr. Francis J. Schneider officiates their wedding Mass Aug. 20, 2021, at St. John the Baptist Church in Wading River, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Pope Francis said “superficial” marriage preparation programs leave many couples at risk of having invalid marriages or unprepared to cope with the struggles that arise in every marriage.
These hearings are an attempt to reassure us all that the American story we were taught as kids is not some fairytale that adults told us to help us sleep or to make us easier to manipulate.
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted’s tenure was not without controversy, but in my nine years of working with him, I found him to be a prayerful, generous and thoughtful man.
In the aftermath of sexual trauma, making a woman’s body the site of a legal battle is traumatic itself.

“Give them some food yourselves” (Lk 9:13).

Bishop Dolan compared his outlook to that of Pope Francis, explaining that he “grew up in a very large family, nine kids. There’s no way of drawing a line in the sand with nine kids. You can’t do that.”
A colorful array of fresh fruits and vegetables on a platter.
I became a vegetarian, and I am now thinking about becoming a vegan. In this discernment, I see God staring back at me.
Season 3 of ’For All Mankind’ begins on June 10 on Apple TV+.
“For All Mankind” invents a Soviet victory in the space race and imagines a tempting counterfactual: What if Americans’ faith in government was never shattered?
Pope Francis has said that going on pilgrimage is “one of the people of God’s most eloquent expressions of faith.” Why?
Demonstrators gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on July 9, 2018. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Too often the pro-life movement has been tempted into the pursuit of political power and domination over pro-choice opponents. But women worried about their rights are not the enemy.