Q: Does a person's mortal sin prior to becoming Catholic follow him or her until confession and absolution? In particular, if ...

We can make all the excuses we want for our lack of charity, but Jesus just calls it what it is -- idolatry. "You cannot serve God and mammon," Jesus says.

Tariffs, duties imposed on imported goods, have been causing global uncertainty in recent months, with President Trump employing them periodically. Courts have even recently weighed in to consider the ...

As September dawned, eyes turned to Rome with joy to celebrate the canonizations of two young men -- Sts. Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis. In a particular way, many hoped that the holy lives of ...

. . . Whether we understand it or not, we are people of the cross. And so this Sunday, we take time to acknowledge it, revere ...

Pope Francis had a special affinity for parents whose children have died. In November 2024, his prayer intention for the ...

The widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk delivered an address Sept. 12, vowing that his legacy would live on and urging the nation, particularly its youth, to embrace faith, ...

In the fall of 1998, I took on my first teaching assignment as a middle school teacher at St. Ann School in Somerville. I was ...

If St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's life was written as a Hollywood screenplay, a script doctor might say it was simply too tragic for audiences to believe -- let alone that the heroine would r ...

Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the canonization of Elizabeth Seton, the first person born in what would become the United States of America to be declared a saint. It is an anni ...

Following the example of Jesus, who, as the Gospel of Luke (4:16-30) relates, went to the Temple as was his custom, and he proceeded to read from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. The Word of God was an ...

If the working class is miserable, does "Rerum Novarum" speak to the reasons why?