It is no more of a challenge to think of the saints praying for us than it is to understand how any prayer, on earth or in heaven, interacts with the will of God.
Saints
Posted inExplainer
Why are Catholics divided over the Prayer to St. Michael?
The Prayer to St. Michael has been in Catholic news for a while now. What is its history and why is its recitation after Mass a point of dispute?
Posted inFaith in Focus
What three spooky saint stories can teach us about the afterlife
These tales of the dead returning to the living remind us that those who have gone before us are not beyond the reach of our love.
Posted inThe Good Word
St. John of the Cross on what to do when you can’t find love
Where there is no love, put love in, and you will draw love out.
Posted inFaith in Focus
What a tourist owes the poor: A theology of Christian mercy
Christ teaches his disciples that it is not our place to judge those asking for help if we are able to give.
Posted inDispatches
Church in Argentina remembers martyrs as Milei administration downplays ‘dirty war’ atrocities
The 50th anniversary of the Argentina’s military dictatorship arrived amid controversy in the country.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Leo marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s death with calls for prayer and peace
“St. Francis repaired the church by virtue of his faith in the Lord Jesus, healing the rifts of discord through the witness of fraternal love.”
Posted inFaith in Focus
Fulton Sheen’s beatification ceremony was a model of evangelization for the whole church
Sometimes the best evangelization is not trying to evangelize.
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Archbishop Gomez: 100 years later, we must remember the martyrs of Mexico’s anti-Catholic persecutions
During the persecutions that followed the Mexican Revolution of 1917, priests were executed by firing squad. Ordinary Catholics, even teenagers, were imprisoned, tortured and murdered.
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Fulton Sheen’s beatification: An event as simple as a peasant dress
The beatification of Blessed Fulton Sheen this week in St. Louis was many things—but at bottom, it was just a very nice Christian spiritual event filled with goodness.