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By TOM AND APRIL HOOPES | Sunday, May 20, is Ascension Sunday in most of the United States. The Archdioceses of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Philadelphia and the dioceses of the state of Nebraska all celebrate Ascension Thursday (May 17),...

By EMILY STIMPSON | Recently, one of my younger friends, feeling the sting of singleness rather acutely, sent me an email. “I don’t know how you do this single thing so well,” she wrote. “I’m frustrated, angry and tired of hoping.” Then came...

By JOSEPH PRONECHEN | On May 20, the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration mark the 50th anniversary of the foundation of Mother Angelica’s Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Alabama. Mother Angelica’s Poor Clares are part of the Poor Clares of...

By JOSEPH PRONECHEN | May is the month traditionally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. We should look for special ways to honor her. One way is devotion to her under one of her titles. As she told St. Faustina Kowalska, recorded in Divine...

By DONALD DEMARCO | On June 8, 1978, Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn ascended to the podium at Harvard University and delivered a commencement address that was the perfect antithesis of political correctness. Being aware that his words...

By Jimmy Akin | One of the most sinister figures in the Bible is the so-called "Beast" from the Book of Revelation. Portrayed as a frightening monster and identified with the ominous number 666, the Beast has been the subject of an enormous...

By NICK MANETTO | In fewer than 150 pages, Matthew Kelly’s latest book, Off Balance, delivers very clear guidance to help readers attain a life that is personally and professionally satisfying. Similar to the guidance dispensed in his 2002 book...

By TITO EDWARDS | What is the Significance of a Novena? Why 9 Days? - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement A Prayer Before Sex - Kathy Schiffer, Seasons of Grace Keep Your Kids Catholic - Devin Rose, St. Joseph's Vanguard Tolerance...

By JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND | WASHINGTON, D.C.—Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services, spoke today at a graduation event at Georgetown Public Policy Institute, despite protests from Catholic groups, some Georgetown faculty and...

By TITO EDWARDS | Italian Catholic Website Setting Internet Viewership Records - Sandro Magister, www.chiesa Ascension Thursday Sunday - Fr. Z's Blog Tolerance Looks Like Rainbows & Smells Like Burning Churches – The Pulpit Why I Don’t Care...

By CHARLOTTE HAYS | How Catholic is your child’s school? There’s a new tool available to help parents answer that question. The Catholic Identity Assessment program has been developed by the Rochester, N.Y.-based Catholic Education...

By MARGARET McCARTHY | For those engaged in America’s culture wars, it is clear that the welfare of children is the battle ground of choice. We are barely out of the gate with civil unions and same-sex “marriages,” and we have been told, in...

By TITO EDWARDS | NFP and PR - Emily Zanotti, Ignitum Today The Sistine Chapel as You have Never Seen It - Jeffrey A. Tucker, The Chant Café Tech Talk: New Apps for Mary in Prayer - Sarah Reinhard, Catholic Lane St. John of Avila: A Most...

By Matthew Warner | Most of my generation grew up not knowing the word "vocation." And I mean vocation in the sense of something in life that you are divinely made for and called to. And specifically, I mean Marriage vs. (what I'll here call)...

By Simcha Fisher | Gosh, I'm ready for some light reading.  The books stacked up on the baby bed (why not?  The baby doesn't sleep there.  The baby doesn't sleep at all!) are all great, but they are not exactly a laugh riot.  I finished Kristin...

By Jennifer Fulwiler | Earlier this week someone asked me how to address the issue of suffering when chatting with atheists. I was a guest on Catholic Answers Live, and a caller explained that he had been trying to reach out to an atheist...

By Mark Shea | A reader writes: I understand your abundance of caution in discerning whether the Medjugorje phenomenon is truly of divine origin, but you seem to have taken your disbelief a step further to veiled hostility and subtle...

By Pat Archbold | I have always presumed that comment box on Catholic sites (or any religious sites) provided a unique distance and anonymity that allows commenters to behave badly. Among the most misbehaved are atheist commenters who prowl...

By JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND | BALTIMORE — During an installation replete with striking pageantry, sounding trumpets and an enthusiastic crowd of 2,000, Archbishop William Lori passionately defended the cause of religious freedom as a defining issue...

By TITO EDWARDS | A Tough Week for Anti-Christian Entertainment - Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Report Franciscan University of Steubenville Drops Student Health Plan over Mandate - Matthew Archbold, The Cardinal Newman Society...