COMMENTARY: Confession lines reveal both our impatience and our devotion — and whether our faith runs so deep that even our ...

Five years ago, parishioners were informed that no longer would they be dropping their kids off for religious education on Mondays after school. Under the new “family faith formation” program, parents ...

To His Holiness, Pope Francis and His Eminence Cardinal Victor Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Your Holiness and Your Eminence, the peace of Christ be with you. We ...

At an Advent retreat in Philadelphia, Sister Linda explores the “foolishness of hope” and God’s limitless love.

Thirteen years ago, I married Cruz, a beautiful Catholic woman, and we started a new religious order. We call it the Hawrot Family Domestic Church. After saying “I do,” it seemed like no time at all ...

Students at Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School in Takoma Park, Md., in 2016. (OSV/CNS file, Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard) The great educator and cultural historian Walter Ong, S.J., wrote an ...

Nicaraguan priest Father Nils de Jesús Hernández serves a parish in Iowa where he ministers to the Hispanic community and ...

Students at Catholic higher institutions place more of an emphasis on church activities than students at non-Catholic colleges and universities, according to a new survey conducted for the National ...

Join Our Lady of Fatima in Secane on Dec. 5, 2025 at 6:45 pm for a Healing Mass with Fr. Slobogin, music by Mark Griswold.

The 50th anniversary of National Catholic Schools Week kicked off this week, celebrating the more than 5,200 Catholic grade schools in the country that educate more than 1.3 million students.

Catholic Charities received a civil investigation demand from the office of Indiana's attorney general. The focus is on ...