I haven’t lit an advent wreath in nearly 25 years, but the sulfuric scent of a lit match still transports me back to my childhood: dripping wax, the kitchen aglow in candlelight and the elation of ...

How interfaith and agnostic families choose which religious holiday traditions to keep up. (Getty Images) As I settle comfortably into middle age and watch my two boys grow, I find myself longing for ...

As a Catholic, Terry Mattingly’s recent column, titled “Church History helps us sink roots deeper in faith” couldn’t have been more relevant, especially during this most holy season of Lent and during ...

The word ‘religion’ means 'binding'—to remember the links of unity that we have not only with each other as a human family...but also with the world of nature ...

Have you heard? Science has isolated a substance that destroys a woman’s sex drive. It’s called “wedding cake.” So according ...

“I think Gen Z is looking for meaning. And I’ve seen this in myself and even younger people today,” said Chase Harper, who is ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joseph Cheng said his Catholic faith sustained him when he left his home after the Chinese Communist takeover of the state. Dramatic changes occurred ...

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Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means ...

A shooting at a school in Minneapolis that left two children dead and 17 others injured is being investigated as an anti-Catholic hate crime, the FBI says. "The FBI is investigating this shooting as ...