Cardinals are gathering in Rome to prepare to elect the next pope. They’ve scheduled Pope Francis’s funeral for this Saturday. The preparatory sessions for the next papal conclave have begun. At a ...

You’ve seen crucifixes all your life. Every Sunday, one looks down at you from above the altar. One may be hanging around your neck right now. Usually, the corpus on the cross does not appear ...

Note from the editor: Earlier this year, having learned of his forthcoming book on scrupulosity, I contacted Kevin Vost with some interview questions on what has been revealed as a topic of much ...

If God exists, where is he? Moreover, if God is all-loving and all-powerful, why hasn’t he shown himself to the world? He’s all-loving: why would he leave any room for doubt? He’s all-powerful: why ...

Once a person has entered a state of justification, can this be lost? If so, how would this happen? Protestants have proposed a variety of answers to these questions. Luther, based on the idea of ...

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are known for their many practices and beliefs that differ from mainstream Christianity. Examples include their rejection of the Trinity, their door-to-door preaching work, and ...

Many people, particularly within our pews, do not know the reasons for the use of incense in worship. Even I, when I was a Franciscan friar using incense as an altar server, often thought, “Why?” All ...

If you look at the bulletin for a typical Catholic parish, you’re likely to see a schedule of upcoming Masses along with notes for “Mass intentions,” like “for the holy souls in purgatory,” “pro ...

If you bring up the topic of the soul, it’s not uncommon for folks to give you a blank stare. And even if folks do have something to say about it, they often think of it as some separate thing in us ...

It is well established that the Holy Rosary has a few different origin stories. Some of them are downright off, contradictory, or really lazy attempt to fill in the history where we otherwise find ...

Some Christian denominations outside mainstream Protestantism, such as Oneness Pentecostals, argue that the trinitarian formula doesn’t match with what the Bible has to say about baptism. They claim ...

In the last few years, there has been a sometimes-heated discussion in certain Catholic circles about whether Muslims and Christians worship “the same God.” The phrase “same God” is fraught in that it ...