I am in awe of Father William Slattery’s command of his subject. He is, after all, covering 1,600 years of Western civilization — a civilization that he argues was “born from the womb of Catholicism ...

In the second century, St. Irenaeus coined one of the most famous phrases in Christianity: “The glory of God is man, fully alive!” “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo, Public Domain, courtesy of ...

Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm ...

Walker Percy (1916–1990), American novelist whose works include “The Moviegoer” and “Love in the Ruins“, took as his subject “the dislocation of man in the modern age.” Percy was born in Birmingham, ...

When I gave a talk recently at the Institute of Catholic Culture on the subject of the Second Coming, I was I asked to describe what our resurrected bodies will be like. St. Paul writes to the ...

Editor’s Note: This column by Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill. originally ran in the Catholic Times. It is reprinted here with permission. Bishop Paprocki also notes that Catholics in other ...

The tiny Church in Japan, however, has given a large, shining witness to their faith. Among modern Japanese converts, we have already encountered the great figure of Takashi Nagai. Satoko Kitahara is ...

When twenty-three year old Michelangelo Buonarroti arrived in Rome to complete his very first public commission, he was provided with a single block of marble, a one-year timeframe, and a sacred theme ...

On July 20, 1933, six months after Hitler rose to power, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, and the German vice chancellor, Franz von Papen, signed a concordat — a sort of peace ...

After celebrating the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, we enter during these days into the evocative atmosphere of immediate preparation for Holy Christmas, and we already see the tree ...

Here I can only sketch the story of his coming to faith and baptism. This Japanese scientist and professor of radiology at the University of Nagasaki faced his greatest challenges after the atomic ...

We cannot master the art of dying unless we fear the death of the soul much more than the death of the body. We are born to die. This inevitable fact could lead to fatalism, although, more often, we ...