We do it because of this: The One who draws us to Church on any given Sunday. The One who nourishes our hopes, and who calms our fears, and who makes of each of us – with all our flaws and ...

Today, in Baltimore, the bishops go behind closed doors in executive session and so we reporters will head for the exits. Looking back over the last two days of public sessions, four moments stand out ...

As I walked outside the hotel in Baltimore where the bishops gathered last week for their annual Fall conference, I noticed a couple of bishops taking a smoke break. One was puffing a cigar, the other ...

Our managing editor, Robert Collins, SJ, also directs an adult-initiation program at a nearby (Paulist!) parish, St. Paul the Apostle. So he’s always on the lookout for good catechetical material. The ...

This is the first time Archbishop Broglio has issued a Lenten reflection since he was elected USCCB president in 2022. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced on Monday that they are releasing a new book on the Holy Father, intended to be “an unprecedented look into the first five years of Benedict's ...

A terrific feature of “Magnificat” and “Give Us This Day,” both daily Catholic prayer booklets, is the reflection on the day’s readings. Here are three that particularly resonated with me from “Give ...

Yesterday, I looked at this week’s USCCB meeting through the lens of four interventions in the discussion on Faithful Citizenship, interventions that highlighted some of the divisions within the ...

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), issued a Lenten reflection on Monday with a message calling for a “just peace” in Ukraine. “As we begin the ...