Vatican offers ‘dialogue’ with SSPX, warns against ordinations...
Pope Leo XIV explains why Catholics fast during Lent...
The ancient practice of fasting from food during Lent can free us from complacency and lead us to “hunger” for God, Pope Leo XIV said in his 2026 Lenten message. Ahead of Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the 40-day liturgical season of Lent, this year on Feb. 18, the pope encouraged people to embrace the “ancient ascetic practice” of abstaining from food...
When Fulton Sheen Was Out of Season...
In December 1956, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen ranked third among Americans for most admired man in the world, according to Gallup. At 61, he was the host of a popular national television show and a celebrated radio personality, author, speaker and convert-maker. When he appeared as a surprise guest on a game show a couple of months before...
Pope Leo XIV: ‘The Church Is the Rightful Home of Sacred Scripture’...
Affair of the Heart: A Reflection on the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time...
Jesus tells us in the Gospel this week that He has come not to abolish but to “fulfill” the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. His Gospel reveals the deeper meaning and purpose of the Ten Commandments and the moral Law of the Old Testament. But His Gospel also transcends the Law. He demands a morality far greater than that accomplished by the most pious of Jews, the scribes and Pharisees.
Uncovering Sin and the Path to Christ...
In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul makes an important point about the volatile relationship between sin and grace, where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. The propensity for man to engage in sinful behavior, even if it may appear insurmountable to the human intellect, is not greater than the gift of grace instituted by Christ through His death and resurrection on the Cross...
Winter Olympics 2026: What is Olympic ice and how is it made?
Today Is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes — and Pope St. John Paul II’s World Day of the Sick...
Mississippi Diocese Advances Canonization Cause of Sister Thea Bowman...
Your Faithfulness Is Changing the World (Even From Your Living Room)...
Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.” And if you’re like most of us, you hear that and think, “Jesus, I love you, but ... really? I’m just trying to keep my kids alive today. I’m the light of my living room on a good day. That’s about it.” Here's the truth: When you're faithful right where you are...
It’s Official: After Long Delay, Vatican Gives Green Light for Fulton J. Sheen Beatification...
The Faithful 11: Meet the Patriots and Seahawks Playing for Christ This Super Bowl Sunday...
Pope Leo XIV Appoints Bishop James Golka of Colorado Springs as Archbishop of Denver...
Save the Pope, Vatican Groundhogs, and ‘Salus Animarum’...
I’m a little worked up this week, so I might as well brace you for it up front. I spent a considerable number of years of my life studying the particular discipline of canon law, and several more learning to practice it with any proficiency. When I have been asked to teach it as a sacred science, the first and most important thing I try to impart to students is that canon law isn’t some Catholic cosplay at legislation...
St. Paul Miki and the Japanese Martyrs: Evangelizers Through Blood...
Fallout Continues at Notre Dame Over Pro-Abortion Appointee...
Department of Justice Investigates Vandalism at California Catholic school...
What Do You Do When Everything Just Becomes Too Much?
Artemis II, the first manned mission around the Moon since 1972, is set to launch soon...
You Better Man Up Before Asking to Marry My Daughter...
A recent caller to my daily radio show posed an important question about something I have some experience with. He asked my advice on how to handle a situation in which the guy his daughter is shacking up with is gearing up to ask permission to ask for her hand in marriage. Aside from the cohabiting part, which I didn’t apply to any of my five lovely daughters
SSPX to Consecrate Bishops Without Rome’s Approval, Courting Excommunication...
Happy Birthday, End of an Era, and We’re Being Hunted...
Why Does God Permit Animal Pain?
This Sunday, Jesus Will Give Us Everything If We Crawl Out of Satan’s Trap...
Christ Offers More Than John Lennon Could Ever Imagine...
Our Man in Washington: Who Will Be the Pope’s New Nuncio?
St. John Bosco and the Joy of Teaching A Soul...
German Cardinal Woelki of Cologne: ‘For Me the Synodal Way Is Over’...
Ancient and New Wisdom on AI, One Year After ‘Antiqua et Nova’...
To Be Loved, a Seat at the Table, and the Elephant in the Room...
This Sunday, Jesus Tells Angry Americans What We Need to Change, Right Now...
Sunday’s Gospel shows how harsh Jesus can be and how gentle the Old Testament and St. Paul can be — but for a good reason. He gives him the secret to Christian morality, and it is exactly what is in shortest supply in our day, so it must be very difficult to achieve: love...
Former DC United soccer star discusses his return to the Catholic faith...
‘Worthy of God’s Love’: The Powerful Witness of ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Star James Van Der Beek...
Might Doesn’t Make Right — or Even Make Sense...
The “Melian Dialogue,” from Thucydides’ classic History of the Peloponnesian War, is the foundational text of the Realist school of international relations theory. It’s 416 B.C., and the island-statelet of Melos has remained neutral in the war between the local superpowers, Athens and Sparta. A diplomatic delegation from Athens goes to Melos and demands that the Melians join Team Athens...
NCRegister Editorial: Notre Dame’s Leaders Are at Odds With Pope Leo...
‘Death Pelicans’ and 8 Other Birds That Will Make You Cherish Your Spot on the Food Chain...
An Atheist’s Argument Against Abortion...
Don Marquis was an atheist philosopher best known for his argument against abortion, which makes absolutely no appeal to religion, the soul, or God. So, how does Marquis reason to his conclusion? He begins with common ground among those who are pro-choice and those who are pro-life. If someone kills you or me right now, that person would do something wrong. What makes it wrong to kill you or me?
‘Strong Opposition’: Bishop Rhoades Rebukes Notre Dame’s Pro-Abortion Appointment...
Blessed-to-Be Fulton Sheen: Holy Disciple and Church-Changing Apostle...
Today’s long-awaited news of the upcoming beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979) brings enormous joy not just to the places where he ministered — Peoria, Westminster, Washington D.C., New York and Rochester — but throughout the United States and the world. The most famous Catholic preacher in American history, Archbishop Sheen providentially took advantage...
A Kangaroo Court in Hong Kong: Catholic Businessman Jimmy Lai Gets 20 Years...
The Litany of Humility: How Can I be Freed from the Desire to be Loved?
It has been argued (quite successfully, in my opinion) that Christ’s greatest virtue during his earthly sojourn was humility. That you have felt nudged to pray the Litany of Humility as a Lenten devotion, then, seems a sure sign that you are listening to the Holy Spirit. It is edifying and encouraging to hear about it...
Pope Leo XIV Will Not Travel to the United States in 2026, Vatican Spokesman Says...
Salt and Light: A Reflection the Readings for the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time...
Salt is a preservative. So we are called to be preservatives of the goodness that we have received from God. Moms and dads, do that with your family. Preserve the goodness of your family. Stay close to the Church. Stay close to the celebration and reception of the sacraments. All of that preserves the life of God that is in us already. We must be active to do that...
Christ’s Forgotten Nighttime Suffering (and That’s Not All)...
Christmas seems to take a very long time to arrive, while Lent leaps out and grabs us before we have time to blink. Ash Wednesday 2026 is just a week away. So now we are called upon to reflect not on the baby in the manger but on the man whose “sweat became like great drops of blood falling down upon the ground” (Luke 22:44). The realities of the passion and death of Jesus Christ trigger in us a significantly different response than do the details of His nativity.
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Artificial Intelligence Isn’t What You Think It Is...
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ND Right to Life: A Pro-Life Call to Action on the Ostermann Case...
Ice Chapel Mass Draws Thousands at Notre Dame...
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How Politics and Hot Takes Create a Toxic Mix for the Church...
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That Time I Stayed in a Haunted Hotel...
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The Blessed Path: A Reflection on the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time...
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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—)
