Full disclosure: the title of this essay comes from an All Saints Day homily I heard in Warsaw in 2003. The fact that I remember it 17 years later tells me it’s an insight worth sharing. Modern ...

In an 1854 letter to the archbishop of Munich, the Rev. Boniface Wimmer said the monastery that he had founded near Latrobe eight years earlier sometimes felt like Noah’s ark. “All sorts of creatures ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has commissioned a new official biography of its 19th-century charismatic founder, to be titled simply: “Joseph the Prophet.” The new volume about ...

Leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis was reported to have named six new saints on Sunday, 23 November at Saint Peter's Square, In Rome, Italy. According to Francis , all six saints had devoted ...

“The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila” is considered among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The “Life” is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a ...

What makes for a happy death? For the world, death is an interruption of the real business of living. The term “happy death” is foreign to him who sees with the world. He can only make the best of a ...

"I should like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I should like the angels of Heaven to be drinking it through time eternal." While that might not exactly sound like a quote from a Catholic ...

"I should like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I should like the angels of Heaven to be drinking it through time eternal." While that might not exactly sound like a quote from a Catholic ...