Fr. Lawrence Lucas, who died on April 18, was an activist-priest instrumental in the Black Catholic Movement that transformed the U.S. Catholic church fifty years ago. His memoir-manifesto Black ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), quoting the Second Vatican Council’s Lumen Gentium, introduces the Eucharist as “the source and summit of the Christian life.” When explaining this concept ...

As an Evangelical who’s investigating Rome, I’d like some clarification (preferably biblical) on the meaning of the term "virtue," which I’ve always understood to mean generic holiness. In Catholic ...

The Catholic understanding of penance is tied to a recognition of sin's effects on a soul and our efforts to restore our relationship with God and neighbor. The Catholic Church teaches that penance is ...

For some obscure reason, a person I do not know has decided to begin an email correspondence with me to insist that I have been wrong in my writings about the relationship among faith, works and grace ...

Could computer programs ever come to truly think and understand? Can artificial intelligence (AI) possess a “mind” the way humans do and, by extension, ever be described as a “person” with a soul? If ...

Mark Shea's new book The Church's Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching is not the most sophisticated theological book you will read this year. But, if you were starting a ...

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki and other figures emphasized the importance of faith formation for Catholic lawyers and the role that Catholic law schools have in helping shape perspectives of soon-to-be ...

The scientists demonstrated the harmony of faith and science in their works.One challenged the idea that the earth was at the center of the universe. Another developed the theory of the Big Bang. One ...