Laetare Sunday , the fourth, or middle, Sunday of Lent, so called from the first words of the Introit at Mass, “Laetare Jerusalem“—”Rejoice, O Jerusalem“. During the first six or seven centuries the ...

The Catholic tradition takes the Eighth Commandment—“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”—extremely seriously. Strict condemnations of all kinds of lying can be found from the ...

The public, worldwide conversation about UFOs (also known as UAP) has become more widespread and mainstream in recent years. It presents Catholics with a challenge: Does the Church teach that angels ...

In the first part of my series on the biblical roots of the Mass, we examined how Jesus’ one sacrifice of Calvary didn’t end on the cross, but rather culminated in everlasting glory in the heavenly ...

People all over the world—in all periods of human history—have dealt with spirits. Some of these spirits have been bad and have harmed the living in various ways. When this happens, people naturally ...

Note from the editor: Earlier this year, having learned of his forthcoming book on scrupulosity, I contacted Kevin Vost with some interview questions on what has been revealed as a topic of much ...

Cardinals are gathering in Rome to prepare to elect the next pope. They’ve scheduled Pope Francis’s funeral for this Saturday. The preparatory sessions for the next papal conclave have begun. At a ...

I was recently presented with a topic about which I had never given much thought: someone taking a long time for confession, resulting in other people unable to receive the sacrament because the ...

The triumvirate of complaints about the Bible from atheists typically consists of denouncing its science, denouncing its God, and denouncing its morality. Here we’ll handle a classic moral objection: ...

In the last few years, there has been a sometimes-heated discussion in certain Catholic circles about whether Muslims and Christians worship “the same God.” The phrase “same God” is fraught in that it ...

I’m always surprised by the ignorance of most Christians when it comes to Jehovah’s Witnesses. For instance, my wife, who is a cradle Catholic, thought they were Protestants like any others, but ones ...

Once a person has entered a state of justification, can this be lost? If so, how would this happen? Protestants have proposed a variety of answers to these questions. Luther, based on the idea of ...