By HOSFFMAN OSPINO
Catholics in the United States have excelled in developing amazing structures and resources for pastoral leadership formation at all levels in seminaries, houses of formation, colleges and universities, pastoral institutes, online programs and catechetical formation initiatives, among...
By GREG ERLANDSON
My wife and I moved from the Midwest to the East Coast a few years ago. There was a predictable amount of culture shock for both of us in leaving the manifest blessings of the Midwest: Housing...
I stood at the desk in my college apartment, holding a box of birth control pills. As I read the instructions, the lengthy list of side effects made me hesitate.
I had friends who experienced weight gain, mood swings, loss...
The Catholic Church's teaching on responsible parenthood is often overlooked, or simply unknown.
Pope Francis memorably countered popular misconceptions about the church's sexual teaching in 2015 aboard a flight when he bluntly said, "Some people believe that -- pardon my...
Fifty years after its promulgation, the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" has been labeled "prophetic."
Pope Paul VI understood that the quality of marital and parental love has social consequences.
Among other topics, the encyclical spells out the church's teaching on responsible parenthood.
It...
VATICAN CITY -- World War I and its aftermath changed the map of Europe, but also dismantled the notion of the "state church" in a way that forced the Catholic Church to discover again the authentic meaning of mission,...
WASHINGTON -- When Brett Kavanaugh took to the podium July 9 at the White House after being introduced as President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, he revealed, among other things, that his Catholic faith is a big part of...
COALVILLE, England -- Cistercian monks have opened the first Trappist brewery in England and are selling thousands of bottles of beer every day.
The monks at Mount St. Bernard Abbey in the English Midlands decided to brew beer to bring...
WASHINGTON -- Some of migrant children under age 5 separated from their families by the government were reunited with loved ones July 9 with help from Catholic organizations.
About two dozen families in all were brought back together on that...
WASHINGTON -- Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a pretty good guy, according to Msgr. John Enzler, his former pastor and the current president and CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington.
He first met Kavanaugh, whom President Donald Trump...