Pope Leo XIV urged parishes to invest in liturgical formation, especially for lectors, while also encouraging people to pray the Liturgy of the Hours and calling for attention to be paid to popular piety. While receiving participants in a course organized by the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of St. Anselm in Rome...

There is an important narrative that many Catholic educators neglect to present to their students when introducing, teaching, and discussing the Catholic faith. The narrative in question is typically associated with the following question: Why did Jesus come? The nature of this Incarnational question is fundamental because it connects all human beings to the Father by way of the Son...

We’re just weeks from 2026, and just months from America’s 250th birthday. We’re also just days from Advent, a season of self-examination and hope for Christians in preparing for the central event of human history: the birth of Jesus. It’s a beautiful, serious, reflective time of year. Which makes it a perfect time for some awkward thoughts about who we are as a believing people and the character of the “American Experiment,” the nation we call home and help sustain...

There is nothing like the experience of being seen by eyes that love you. Here, and perhaps here alone, we feel truly seen. But actually our happiness is grounded in, and indeed requires, an astounding, unique instance of such love: a love that not only sees everything but also orchestrates everything. Too often we forget or ignore this, much to our unhappiness...

Young people come to New York City to chase careers, materialism and pleasure. The pursuit of faith isn’t exactly on the Big Apple checklist. However, at a recent, very crowded Sunday night mass at St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village, Father Jonah Teller, OP made a simple announcement indicating that times are changing...

Humor and laughter are essential parts of what it means to be a human being. Aristotle regarded risibility as one of the features that distinguishes us from non-rational animals. Indeed, humor is such a beautiful and complex part of being human that it’s difficult to see how it could have developed through purely natural means...

The world’s best aerial athletes and pilots come together to make the ultimate obstacle course in the sky. Precision flying meets creativity as wingsuiters take on a complex series of obstacles including jet planes, paramotors, skydivers, catapults, skyscrapers and drones in order to reach their final landing zone...

Celebrating Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor on the Ninth World Day of the Poor, Pope Leo XIV urged Christians not to retreat into a closed or “religious” world of their own, but to help make human society “a space of fraternity and dignity for all, without exception.” Presiding in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday...

This coming Saturday, the Latin Rite Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston is hosting Eparch Elias Zaidan of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles. His Grace will be celebrating the Maronite Divine Liturgy (which originated as the Antiochene Liturgy) in honor of one of the greatest miracle-workers in history, a nineteenth-century monk and hermit called St. Charbel Makhlouf...

On December 9, 1965, 45 million Americans tuned in to CBS to watch the premiere of A Charlie Brown Christmas. The half-hour animated Christmas special has aired every year since then. As A Charlie Brown Christmas turns 60 this year, it is worth asking why this program, with its unapologetically Christian treatment of the holiday season, continues to be embraced year after year by a culture that has become increasingly secularized...