(Photo: Adobe Stock) We could all use a little more mercy in our lives, and it can start with us being more merciful to ourselves and...

From Eden to the Promised Land The Crucifixion, Fra Angelico, ca. 1440. (http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435577) People...

(Photo: Lightstock) The capital or deadly sins were not named for being unforgivable or because of their gravity, but because they are...

(Photo via Wikicommons/Photo by jeffreyw via Flickrby CC by 2.0) By CNA Staff This year St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Friday. For those...

(Photo: Gerardo Juarez / Cathopic) By Patrick Howard Unleash the Gospel Taking just 15 minutes a day, the Examen prayer will transform...

Photo by Shalone Cason via Unsplash “But I’m a good person!” Or so goes one of a myriad of common excuses for why someone doesn’t need to...

When it comes to the mercy of God, is there any greater encounter we have with that today than in the confessional? In fact, St. Thomas...

“At the judgment, the people of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah,...

We’ve all seen it; someone walks into a restaurant, or a bank, or the grocery store with a smudge of ashes in the shape of a cross on his...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) St. Dominic Catholic Church in Denver, in collaboration with the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus in Chicago, Illinois,...

Ashes — the refuse that remains when fire has consumed something — remind us of the humble dust from which we were made and our place...

St. Paul VI says the Mass versus populum at All Saints Parish (Rome) on March 7, 1965. By Father Felix P. Medina-Algaba Pastor of Queen...

By Seth Fabian SJV Lay Division Instructor St. Valentine’s Day is in every way an odd holiday: originally honoring a martyr who chose...

(Photo: Unsplash) The Church gives us the Sacrament of Reconciliation to be reconciled with God. As sinful beings, our communion with the...

“All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room.” Blaise Pascal, who offers this...

On March 15, 2023, St. Frances Cabrini will be inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in a formal induction ceremony and...

In an often-dreary February, the feast of the Presentation brings illumination. Photo by Amor Santo via Cathopic By Mary Stroka/National...

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement, who encourages us in our...

(Photo: Daniele Levis Pelusi / Unsplash) By Chelsea Magyar “Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her...

Photo: Sony Pictures Is anyone beyond redemption? Last year’s sleeper hit film Father Stu showed that with the grace of God, anything is...