The end of one year and beginning of another is a time to take stock … and to look ahead to the promise of new opportunities. How do Christians take stock? Is it appropriate for us to ask, as a Church ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis encouraged the faithful on Friday to guard their hearts by doing a daily examination of conscience, saying that, we if we don’t, we risk letting the devil in rather than ...

While public outcry about the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin gathers momentum on social networks and in various public demonstrations around the country, it does not seem to be weighing too ...

Amid the debate about whether Catholic public figures who support abortion should be permitted to receive Holy Communion, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois said this week that the most ...

In his message for this year's World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis challenged Catholics on their attitude toward the impoverished, asking whether they really listen to and love the needy, or engage in ...

Pope Francis at the general audience on St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, on November 30. ROME—Pope Francis has recommended a daily examination of conscience as an “indispensable” practice in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lord David Alton of Liverpool witnessed the enduring appeal of St. Thomas More when a future saint visited England some years ago. During that visit, Mother Teresa asked him to show ...

Linda Dakin-Grimm’s vibrating phone interrupts her. She glances at the message, then apologizes to our group of university leaders: “Excuse me, I need to look at this.” We nod. Something is very wrong ...

Granted, personal “confession” has been in decline. There are no lines in front of confessionals on Saturday afternoons like there were in the days of my youth. So, someone is trying to revive ...