This Sunday, See Christ and Be Christ By Receiving Christ, the Good Samaritan...
A scholar asks Jesus a key question to begin the Gospel reading this Sunday: “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus asks him “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” in other words, “You don’t need me to tell you what the purpose of life is. You already know it.” The man answers: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Exactly, says Jesus...
This Flemish Renaissance Artist Painted Bugs Like Jewels — And Changed Science Forever...
Apologetics Alone Is Never Enough...
Catholic apologetics—that is, the careful argumentation for the veracity of the Catholic faith—is an important tool in spreading the Gospel, but by itself it is rarely enough to convert anyone. This frustrating reality presents a challenge that we may not always know how to meet. Let’s take a few minutes to understand the nature of the problem...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Praying Like Jesus...
Prayer is so powerful that it’s actually life-changing. And here’s the best part: God really delights in every moment you spend talking with Him. But how exactly did Jesus pray, and what can His prayer life teach us about drawing close to the Father? In this episode of The Chris Stefanick Show, I sit down with seminary professor Scott Powell to journey through Jesus’ prayer life, from the blazing summit of the Transfiguration to the raw honesty of the Psalms...
Will Leo XIV Weigh in on France’s Criminal Chancellor?
A French archbishop is standing by his decision to appoint as chancellor a priest who was convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy, and who spent four years in prison for the offense. While Archbishop Guy de Kerimel of Toulouse argues that appointing the priest to a prominent archdiocesan position is an act of mercy, Catholics in France and the U.S. seem skeptical, with some asking why Fr. Dominique Spina is eligible for any diocesan assignment at all.
Pax, French Clericalism, and American Iconography...
Diocese of San Bernardino Grants Sunday Mass Dispensation to Those Fearing Deportation...
Pope Leo XIV Shares Message to Pilgrims at Historic Mass in Canterbury Cathedral...
Catholic faithful packed Canterbury Cathedral on Monday evening for a historic Mass, complete with a papal blessing and the Eucharistic liturgy celebrated by the apostolic nuncio to honor St. Thomas Becket and the translation of his relics in 1220. Since at least the late 20th century, the Cathedral’s Anglican leaders have allowed the local Catholic parish of St. Thomas of Canterbury to celebrate the translation (transferal) of the relics every July 7 with a Mass at the high altar.
We Don’t Just Choose Right or Wrong — Our Moral Choices Make Us Who We Are...
When Protestants say Peter can't be ‘the rock,’ they have it exactly backwards...
I grew up in the American South, and I was raised in a Protestant family. But when I was six or seven years old, my parents had some kind of disagreement with the elders of our church, and they stopped going. So after that, I was raised nominally Protestant, and we’d go to church only once or twice a year when we visited my grandparents. When I was a teenager, I was involved in the New Age Movement, but I broke with that when I turned 18.
The Ascension vs. Human Composting...
There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh Sunday of the Easter season. Among other things, the transfer shortens the Church’s time to reflect on this great feast, whose meaning has become ever more important in this cultural moment. What does the Ascension of the Lord mean? The Ascension means that humanity — the human nature assumed by the second Person of the Trinity at the Incarnation — has been incorporated into the life of God himself.
What Pope Leo XIV’s Little-Seen Thesis Reveals About His Theology of Leadership...
The Powerful Puzzle at the Heart of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson’s ‘Teenage Symphony to God’...
Catholic Evangelization 101: What is Conversion?
During WWII, Peter To Rot Chose Martyrdom Over Polygamy and Silence...
Russia’s ‘Sacrilegious War’ Shatters Orthodox Unity, Prompts Response From Pope Leo...
Catholics Mobilize Aid After Historic Flash Floods Devastate Texas Hill Country...
Why Was Moses Not Allowed to Enter the Promised Land?
6 Things You Should Know About This Sunday’s Readings...
God’s Answer to the Pain of Adolescence...
What I Discovered When 10 Nuns Came Over for Dinner...
How many new priests are there in Europe?
We Are Improbable, But Here We Are...
Quiet high schooler paints portraits of entire class to reconnect before graduating...
Next year is the 250th birthday of the US — and “We, the People” need to get our act together...
St. Otto, Whose Feast Day Is July 2, United the Fractured Faith of a Fractured Europe...
Pope Accepts Resignation of Archbishop Rodi, Names St. Louis Auxiliary as Successor...
Jeopardy! contestant wins thanks to wildest Final Jeopardy coincidence...
Solidarity: The Path Between Nationalism and Globalism...
What we learned about Pope Leo through the Knights of Malta...
Harvest Time: A Reflection on the Upcoming 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
5 Key Symbols of Grace in the Bible...
There are many different ways to define grace. One simple way of thinking about it is as a divine gift. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains, “Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life” (1996). Every hour of every day, God is sending us free gifts to help us on our journey back to Him. And throughout the Scriptures, He provides us with a host of symbols which help convey the beauty and the power of this amazing grace.
Want biblical proof for the Catholic Eucharist? Read the Book of Revelation, and consider the end of the world...
On Easter morning, two disciples of Jesus are on their way from Jerusalem back to Emmaus. They might be husband and wife, but the text doesn’t say for certain. St. Luke names only one of the two: Cleopas. If they are a married couple, they might be Jesus’ aunt and uncle. (Hegesippus, a Christian writer from the second century, references “the Lord’s uncle, Clopas.”) If Cleopas and Clopas are the same person...
A Pilgrimage to Częstochowa...
Hope Against Hope: A Priest’s Tale Made for the Movies...
If you’re looking for a short, punchy thriller with a spiritual component as well as physical action, Andy Fowler’s 2024 novella, The Condemned is probably for you. Inspired by the story of a nameless priest murdered while ministering in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, this tale of an American priest in a small, northern Mexican town starts with cartel violence and ends with cartel violence...
Alleged Apparitions in Slovakia: What’s the Vatican Saying?
The Vatican’s doctrinal office gave the green light Wednesday to devotion associated with alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Slovakia. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith published July 9 a letter from its prefect, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, approving a declaration of nihil obstat (“nothing stands in the way”) for the Marian devotion connected with Mount Zvir, located in northern Slovakia, close to the Polish border.
Bishops Draw the Line at Border Wall Expansion...
That’s Some Bad Fish Story – Spielberg’s “Jaws” Turns 50...
Camp Mystic, Texas Floods and Grieving for Lost Children...
There is no emotional pain on earth greater than that of a parent who has lost a child. As we read the news of so many deaths from the Texas floods, those of the children hit particularly hard. That so many of them were attending a Christian camp is particularly troubling to many: If this is how God rewards innocent children gathered to praise his name, what does Christian faith even mean? There’s a great deal of theology about evil and suffering, but it is of little comfort in a moment like this...
A Divine Plan for Changing Diapers...
There is always a reason for the way things are, even when this is not apparent. An easily missed aspect of the natural order of household life offers a standout example of this truth. In short, the things we must do to address our bodily needs offer a perfect context to address our higher needs too. What might seem ho-hum at first shows itself on closer examination to be breathtaking...
Pope Leo XIV Shares Message to Pilgrims at Historic Mass in Canterbury Cathedral...
32 Martyrs of Orange Guillotined in Roman Theater During French Revolution...
America celebrates the Semiquincentennial of the United States in less than a year. The struggle of the United States for liberty was a defining feature of its national psychology, especially in its early years, which led to conflicted attitudes about the French Revolution that began in 1789. On the one hand, France had been an ally without whose help the young American Republic probably would not have wrested independence from the British...
The Risk of Searching for Christ...
What We Must Do: A Reflection on the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
The 11 Best Affordable Family Vacations in the US...
Pope Leo XIV Arrives in Castel Gandolfo for Summer Vacation...
Defunding Planned Parenthood Is Only a Baby Step...
How many new priests are there in Europe?
Pope Leo XIV Returns to 400-Year-Old Papal Tradition of Summer Retreat at Castel Gandolfo...
Tragedy at Rattlesnake Falls: Opus Dei Mourns the June 18 Drowning Deaths of Three of Its Members...
Vatican Spokesman Downplays Leaked Documents on Traditional Latin Mass...
Canonical Trial Advances for Rupnik as Vatican Appoints External Judges...
Message for the 10th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (July 2, 2025)...
Killed for Being Christian: The Personal Stories of All 22 Catholic Ugandan Martyrs...
The Tomb of St. Peter Explained...
‘Never Despair of God’s Mercy’: A Rule for Families, Not Just Monks...
Saints and popes have lauded the benefits of trade. So where do tariffs fit in?
The Blood-Curdling Permian Monsters That Ruled the Earth Before Dinosaurs...
Woman Attacks Toddler With Pepper Spray During Mass in Brazil...
What Should a Good Homily Look Like?
Deacons play a special role in the new evangelization of marriage...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
- St. Linus (67-76)
- St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
- St. Alexander I (105-115)
- St. Sixtus I (115-125)
- St. Telesphorus (125-136)
- St. Hyginus (136-140)
- St. Pius I (140-155)
- St. Anicetus (155-166)
- St. Soter (166-175)
- St. Eleutherius (175-189)
- St. Victor I (189-199)
- St. Zephyrinus (199-217)
- St. Callistus I (217-22)
- St. Urban I (222-30)
- St. Pontian (230-35)
- St. Anterus (235-36)
- St. Fabian (236-50)
- St. Cornelius (251-53)
- St. Lucius I (253-54)
- St. Stephen I (254-257)
- St. Sixtus II (257-258)
- St. Dionysius (260-268)
- St. Felix I (269-274)
- St. Eutychian (275-283)
- St. Caius (283-296)
- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
- St. Eusebius (309 or 310)
- St. Miltiades (311-14)
- St. Sylvester I (314-35)
- St. Marcus (336)
- St. Julius I (337-52)
- Liberius (352-66)
- St. Damasus I (366-84)
- St. Siricius (384-99)
- St. Anastasius I (399-401)
- St. Innocent I (401-17)
- St. Zosimus (417-18)
- St. Boniface I (418-22)
- St. Celestine I (422-32)
- St. Sixtus III (432-40)
- St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)
- St. Hilarius (461-68)
- St. Simplicius (468-83)
- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
- Anastasius II (496-98)
- St. Symmachus (498-514)
- St. Hormisdas (514-23)
- St. John I (523-26)
- St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)
- Boniface II (530-32)
- John II (533-35)
- St. Agapetus I (535-36)
- St. Silverius (536-37)
- Vigilius (537-55)
- Pelagius I (556-61)
- John III (561-74)
- Benedict I (575-79)
- Pelagius II (579-90)
- St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)
- Sabinian (604-606)
- Boniface III (607)
- St. Boniface IV (608-15)
- St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)
- Boniface V (619-25)
- Honorius I (625-38)
- Severinus (640)
- John IV (640-42)
- Theodore I (642-49)
- St. Martin I (649-55)
- St. Eugene I (655-57)
- St. Vitalian (657-72)
- Adeodatus (II) (672-76)
- Donus (676-78)
- St. Agatho (678-81)
- St. Leo II (682-83)
- St. Benedict II (684-85)
- John V (685-86)
- Conon (686-87)
- St. Sergius I (687-701)
- John VI (701-05)
- John VII (705-07)
- Sisinnius (708)
- Constantine (708-15)
- St. Gregory II (715-31)
- St. Gregory III (731-41)
- St. Zachary (741-52)
- Stephen II (III) (752-57)
- St. Paul I (757-67)
- Stephen III (IV) (767-72)
- Adrian I (772-95)
- St. Leo III (795-816)
- Stephen IV (V) (816-17)
- St. Paschal I (817-24)
- Eugene II (824-27)
- Valentine (827)
- Gregory IV (827-44)
- Sergius II (844-47)
- St. Leo IV (847-55)
- Benedict III (855-58)
- St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)
- Adrian II (867-72)
- John VIII (872-82)
- Marinus I (882-84)
- St. Adrian III (884-85)
- Stephen V (VI) (885-91)
- Formosus (891-96)
- Boniface VI (896)
- Stephen VI (VII) (896-97)
- Romanus (897)
- Theodore II (897)
- John IX (898-900)
- Benedict IV (900-03)
- Leo V (903)
- Sergius III (904-11)
- Anastasius III (911-13)
- Lando (913-14)
- John X (914-28)
- Leo VI (928)
- Stephen VIII (929-31)
- John XI (931-35)
- Leo VII (936-39)
- Stephen IX (939-42)
- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
- John XII (955-63)
- Leo VIII (963-64)
- Benedict V (964)
- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
- Benedict VII (974-83)
- John XIV (983-84)
- John XV (985-96)
- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
- John XVII (1003)
- John XVIII (1003-09)
- Sergius IV (1009-12)
- Benedict VIII (1012-24)
- John XIX (1024-32)
- Benedict IX (1032-45)
- Sylvester III (1045)
- Benedict IX (1045)
- Gregory VI (1045-46)
- Clement II (1046-47)
- Benedict IX (1047-48)
- Damasus II (1048)
- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
- Nicholas II (1058-61)
- Alexander II (1061-73)
- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
- Blessed Urban II (1088-99)
- Paschal II (1099-1118)
- Gelasius II (1118-19)
- Callistus II (1119-24)
- Honorius II (1124-30)
- Innocent II (1130-43)
- Celestine II (1143-44)
- Lucius II (1144-45)
- Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)
- Anastasius IV (1153-54)
- Adrian IV (1154-59)
- Alexander III (1159-81)
- Lucius III (1181-85)
- Urban III (1185-87)
- Gregory VIII (1187)
- Clement III (1187-91)
- Celestine III (1191-98)
- Innocent III (1198-1216)
- Honorius III (1216-27)
- Gregory IX (1227-41)
- Celestine IV (1241)
- Innocent IV (1243-54)
- Alexander IV (1254-61)
- Urban IV (1261-64)
- Clement IV (1265-68)
- Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)
- Blessed Innocent V (1276)
- Adrian V (1276)
- John XXI (1276-77)
- Nicholas III (1277-80)
- Martin IV (1281-85)
- Honorius IV (1285-87)
- Nicholas IV (1288-92)
- St. Celestine V (1294)
- Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
- Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04)
- Clement V (1305-14)
- John XXII (1316-34)
- Benedict XII (1334-42)
- Clement VI (1342-52)
- Innocent VI (1352-62)
- Blessed Urban V (1362-70)
- Gregory XI (1370-78)
- Urban VI (1378-89)
- Boniface IX (1389-1404)
- Innocent VII (1404-06)
- Gregory XII (1406-15)
- Martin V (1417-31)
- Eugene IV (1431-47)
- Nicholas V (1447-55)
- Callistus III (1455-58)
- Pius II (1458-64)
- Paul II (1464-71)
- Sixtus IV (1471-84)
- Innocent VIII (1484-92)
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
- Pius III (1503)
- Julius II (1503-13)
- Leo X (1513-21)
- Adrian VI (1522-23)
- Clement VII (1523-34)
- Paul III (1534-49)
- Julius III (1550-55)
- Marcellus II (1555)
- Paul IV (1555-59)
- Pius IV (1559-65)
- St. Pius V (1566-72)
- Gregory XIII (1572-85)
- Sixtus V (1585-90)
- Urban VII (1590)
- Gregory XIV (1590-91)
- Innocent IX (1591)
- Clement VIII (1592-1605)
- Leo XI (1605)
- Paul V (1605-21)
- Gregory XV (1621-23)
- Urban VIII (1623-44)
- Innocent X (1644-55)
- Alexander VII (1655-67)
- Clement IX (1667-69)
- Clement X (1670-76)
- Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)
- Alexander VIII (1689-91)
- Innocent XII (1691-1700)
- Clement XI (1700-21)
- Innocent XIII (1721-24)
- Benedict XIII (1724-30)
- Clement XII (1730-40)
- Benedict XIV (1740-58)
- Clement XIII (1758-69)
- Clement XIV (1769-74)
- Pius VI (1775-99)
- Pius VII (1800-23)
- Leo XII (1823-29)
- Pius VIII (1829-30)
- Gregory XVI (1831-46)
- Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)
- Leo XIII (1878-1903)
- St. Pius X (1903-14)
- Benedict XV (1914-22)
- Pius XI (1922-39)
- Pius XII (1939-58)
- St. John XXIII (1958-63)
- St. Paul VI (1963-78)
- John Paul I (1978)
- St. John Paul II (1978-2005)
- Benedict XVI (2005-2013)
- Francis (2013-2025)
- Leo XIV (2025—)
