RawPixelA family attends Sunday Mass. The study reported the Church is losing 9 out of 10 cradle Catholics, and most are becoming religiously unaffiliated.

Courtesy photo Marcin Kwasny in Triumph of the Heart (2025). FILM REVIEW: Father Kolbe died a martyr at 47 years old, executed on Aug. 14 and cremated there on Aug. 15, 1941, the Solemnity of… 

Simone RisolutiAmerican-born Pope Leo waves to the faithful during his Aug. 6, 2025, general audience as the flag of his homeland flies in St. Peter’s Square. Aug. 16 marks the first 100 days of his… 

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – African terrorism does not emerge from religious institutions as commonly portrayed, but rather from the political machinations of power brokers, says Catholic philosopher John Kanumbo. In an article titled “Terrorism in Mozambique… 

Pope Leo XIV returned to the Vatican three weeks ago, after a stay at the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, but Rome is pretty much a ghost town between August 13 and whatever Tuesday… 

Delegates of the third Pan-African Catholic Congress on Theology, Society, and Pastoral Life gathered in Ivory Coast’s city of Abidjan from Aug. 5–10, 2025. / Credit: Radio Grace Espoir ACI Africa, Aug 13, 2025 /… 

Wikimedia Commons Pope John XXIII presiding the opening Mass of the Second Vatican Council. COMMENTARY: In proclaiming Jesus Christ as the answer to the question that is every human life, Catholicism is, was, and always… 

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, “A Reading From Homer,” 1885 Amid modernity’s mayhem and madness, the power of literature has often raised a powerful reactionary voice.

Anonymous, “St. Francis de Sales,” Château de Bussy-Rabutin The young saint’s darkest trial revealed the power of the Memorare to bring peace and hope.

Late last month, the Vatican increased some key worker benefits for curial employees and expanded access to others. On July 28, the current prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy signed a measure approving five…