Daniel S. Mulhall, Catholic News Service

While the Bible describes some aspects of life such as love in great detail (1 Cor 13:4-8), one must search a little harder to...

Catholic News Service Both the Gospel according to John and the epistle 1 John emphasize God's love for us and state that if we are...

Catholic News Service Human sinfulness and God's never-ending forgiveness are central themes of the entire Bible, Old and New Testament alike. Beginning with the sin in...

Catholic News Service The Catholic practice of baptizing infants is an "immemorial tradition of the church" according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (No.1252). Documents...

Catholic News Service   In the Gospel accounts of Matthew and Mark, Jesus gives his disciples a final command before he ascends into heaven: They are...

Catholic News Service    The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in "Anna Karenina" wrote: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own...

Catholic News Service In 1517, when Martin Luther went public with his 95 Theses or proposals against the selling of indulgences, he expected a reasoned...

Catholic News Service Pope Francis, in his 2013 apostolic exhortation "The Joy of the Gospel" ("Evangelii Gaudium"), says that the church, the people of God,...

Catholic News Service The Second Vatican Council, in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ("Lumen Gentium") promulgated by Blessed Paul VI on Nov. 21, 1964,...

Catholic News Service On March 26, 1967, Blessed Paul VI promulgated his social encyclical "Populorum Progressio" ("The Progress of Peoples"). In doing this, Blessed Paul continued...