Editor’s note: Francis X. Maier is the 2020-22 senior research associate at Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government and a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and ...

“If we are what we should be,” said St. Catherine of Siena, “we will set the world on fire!” Sometimes “setting the world on fire for Christ” starts right from your own home — or the screen of your ...

“What convinced you to be Catholic?” This question opens a discussion on personal journeys of faith, including experiences of grappling with philosophical inconsistencies, the role of Church authority ...

Surprisingly, one of the biggest sacrifices we can make nowadays is to tell the truth. I don’t mean to tell the truth about the faults of others, of course, but rather to tell the truth about Catholic ...

The Second Vatican Council did not hesitate to emphasize the importance of preaching. Sometimes as Catholics we may downplay the role of good preaching. However, Ad Gentes, the conciliar document on ...

Catholic social teaching is Catholic moral teaching; Catholic moral teaching includes Catholic social teaching. It is a mistake—a common one, yet a profound error—to speak and think of “social” and ...

AI image created by author. I recently read a passage that captures the disconnect many of my readers feel when they encounter the Catholic way of thinking. In The Church and the Middle Ages ...

There’s yet another uproar over Catholics opposing the celebration of same-sex sexual activity. Recently, Fr. Andre Metrejean, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Erath, Louisiana, ...