French media reported the 39-year-old man, named only as Emmanuel A, admitted lighting two fires in the area of a 17th-century organ and a third above an electrical panel in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul July 18 and a third above an electrical panel.

Cairns is a rare figure in American letters: a religious poet free of mawkish piety.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, has said that catechesis is a process in leading young people to a personal relationship with Jesus.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, many theologians have been rethinking how we imagine God in the light of revelations of evolution and the revolutionary realizations of spacetime and quantum mechanics. It’s time for us to catch up.

By implementing a new "pastoral and governance model" in the near future, the Archdiocese of Detroit hopes to provide a way to better serve the Catholic faithful.

A litany for oxygen from a black Jesuit.