For All Saints Day on Nov. 1, guest columnist Michael Patrick O'Brien tells the story of a Utah native and mystic who ...

Every February I attend a festive Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to mark a friend' sanniversary of sobriety. I walk away each year with the same thought: These regular folks conduct the rigorous ...

I recently had the opportunity to speak with prominent Catholic media personality and speaker Kathryn Jean Lopez. We discussed the Catholic faith, education, the public square, and other pertinent ...

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said that messages contained in the writings of Maria Valtorta (1897–1961), an Italian Catholic mystic, “cannot be considered to be of ...

Pope Francis and members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops pray in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 6, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) When I was studying theology in my early 20s, I had to ...

In 2020, I decided to bend my own COVID-19 lockdown to positive ends. I used the enforced solitude to pursue and, I hoped, deepen my personal spirituality. I started reading about Christian mystics, ...

"Are you a Catholic man who's fat and ugly?," the man on my screen asks. "Well, now you can just be ugly!" I'm watching a Catholic fitness coach advertise his business of getting Catholic men to ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis declared two martyrs, four priests and a mystic nun saints of the Catholic church on Sunday, saying they all had a "generous and steadfast heart". Tapestry ...