The "sense of mystery" and awe Catholics should experience at Mass is not one prompted by Latin or by "creative" elements added to the celebration, but by an awareness of the sacrifice of Christ and ...

Q. Recently I went to a Catholic funeral Mass. The only time anyone told stories about the deceased person was briefly after communion. It seemed just like a regular church service. Why do they do ...

The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995 – but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost every other country. The ...

Scripture scholar John Bergsma helps us deepen our understanding of the ‘A’ cycle of readings, built around the Gospel of Matthew, which we will hear at Sunday Mass in the coming liturgical year. Then ...

Robert Louis Stevenson once said, “There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.” The epigraph comes to mind every time I go abroad. I’ve traveled, performed, worked and/or ...

James Warren is chief media writer for The Poynter Institute for Media Studies and a national political columnist. He is on Twitter. October 9, 2015 There's a 1978 Tom Stoppard play, “Night and Day,” ...