In the pantheon of great women in Church history, pride of place should be accorded the young mystic from Siena, St. Catherine, whose feast we celebrate this month. Born in 1347 to a humble wool-dyer, ...

A reader recently asked why there are four Eucharistic Prayers in the Mass and what governs which one is chosen. Well, there are actually several more: three Eucharistic Prayers approved for use in ...

Some Protestants challenge the Catholic claim of Peter’s headship by appealing to 1 Peter 5:1, where St. Peter refers to ...

Many people have a difficult time discerning when the Magisterium has engaged its infallibility and when it hasn’t. I once came across an instance where a Jehovah’s Witness was trying to make hay with ...

What Did St. Malachy Predict? You may have heard of St. Malachy, but perhaps not for his holy life. He is a real saint, born in Armagh, Ireland, in 1094, and became the bishop there in 1032. He ...

One thing that saints like Athanasius, Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas all have in common is that they asserted that creatures can become God. This idea is also reflected in the Catechism of the ...

Not everyone in the scholarly community has interpreted the Bible’s vision of the “woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Rev 12:1) in the ...

The public, worldwide conversation about UFOs (also known as UAP) has become more widespread and mainstream in recent years. It presents Catholics with a challenge: Does the Church teach that angels ...

Catholics often appeal to yesterday’s reading from John 19 for biblical support of the perpetual virginity of Mary. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to ...

There are six “truths” I’ve been asked about many times. People think I’ve never heard these “truths” before and attempt to explain them to me—though I know them all to be myths. In each case, there ...

Today is the Solemnity of the Assumption. Pope Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1950, stipulating that “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, ...

In the mid-1990s, in the course of entering the Catholic Church, my wife and I met many Catholics who were fans of the mega-selling Left Behind novels. One Catholic woman described how the books were ...