Far too often, Catholics in the United States tend to truncate the holiday season and miss some of its key...

On the return flight from his recent trip to Türkiye and Lebanon, Pope Leo made a somewhat passing comment that...

The first major trip of the current Leonine pontificate might have felt to some as a remote, or even exotic,...

As Americans gather this week for our most uniquely religious of secular holidays, Catholics intrinsically recognize the profound connections between...

Our entire extended family recently joined us in celebrating the birth of our second daughter, Damiana Canaris. Of course, this...

Sixty years ago, the council fathers at Vatican II recognized the indispensable role that formation and pedagogy played in the life...

In preparation for a summer class that I am developing on the theologies of Popes Francis and Leo XIV to...

While much of the international attention of Pope Leo’s first canonization Mass on Sept. 7 focused on the newly named...

If a consistent theme has emerged from the first 100 days of the new pontificate, it has been the golden...

When, on July 31, Pope Leo XIV formally prepared the way for English Cardinal John Henry Newman to be declared...