Pope Francis told journalists Saturday that their profession has a great responsibility, the foundation of which should be humility. "Humility is an essential virtue for spiritual life; but I would ...
During his Sunday visit to Rome's Anglican parish of All Saints, Pope Francis voiced gratitude for the good relations Catholics and Anglicans now enjoy, and said that on the path toward full communion ...
As many Catholics try to understand what Pope Francis might mean by a "synodal church," he highlighted some of the essential characteristics — especially humility and trust — in homilies and speeches ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-- Theologian Paul Lakeland, addressing several hundred Catholic theologians here today, called for a good dose of additional humility as our church looks out at the world. His talk ...
Professor Scott Hahn on Friday, April 4, spoke to Harvard’s Catholic Church, St. Paul’s, about the saving truth of Scripture. Hahn, one of today’s most well-known American Catholic scholars, has ...
God is love,” St. John writes in his first letter. Such a simple phrase, and yet plumbless in its depths. Father Romano Guardini, in his book “The Lord,” reflected that to understand the kind of love ...
In trying to live up to Jesus’s message about solidarity with the poor, Pope Francis has called for a church geared to social justice. This pope wants church officials to live more modestly. As he ...
COMMENTARY: April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the election as pope of one of the most consequential ecclesial figures of the last 75 years. Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful ...
Ross Douthat at the ‘Civility in America Part 1: Religion’ event held at The Sheen Center in New York, Dec. 13, 2018. (Photo: America/Antonio DeLoera-Brust) Ross Douthat is up to something. He has ...