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Much of the month of July 2008 was taken up by the attention-grabbing stunt of P.Z. Myers, a biology professor who threatened to desecrate the Eucharist, and then carried out ... Read More

In June 2008, the Sacrament of Communion played a central role in a number of the top stories, including questions on the relationship between Communion and the Sacrament of Confession, ... Read More

Reader Questions were back in full force in May 2008, touching on some of the most basic teachings of the Catholic Church: the need to attend Mass every Sunday and ... Read More

April 2008 saw the third anniversary of the passing into eternal life of Pope John Paul II and the third anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI. The ... Read More

The fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq fell in March 2008, so it's not surprising that the war and tensions with Islam dominated our headlines. The year was ... Read More

February is the shortest month of the year, but because it was a leap year, and February 29 fell on Friday, we actually had five Reader Questions posts! And ... Read More

January 2008 saw a number of interesting Reader Questions, and three of them made our poll. Click on the links in the poll to read the articles, then return ... Read More

The 12 days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and run through January 5, the eve of Epiphany. To celebrate them, I'm not going to give you lords a'leaping ... Read More

Christ is born! Glorify Him! Those words rang out, over and over again, on Christmas Eve at St. Michael's Byzantine Catholic Church in Flushing, Michigan, and at other Byzantine Catholic ... Read More

No matter how the rest of Advent has gone, Christmas Eve is always a day of expectation. Traditionally, Catholics fasted and abstained from meat before noon on Christmas Eve, ... Read More

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In these uncertain economic times, many families are finding themselves this Christmas without sufficient income or in danger of losing what they have. And yet, as the Catholic News ... Read More

Social networking is all the rage today, but sometimes the signal-to-noise ratio (the amount of useful information compared with the amount of useless, or even downright annoying, material) is pretty ... Read More

A reader writes: When I was living in Sicily, they seemed not to give Christmas gifts at Christmas time, but somewhere just after the New Year. Do you know when ... Read More

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If asked to name an Advent hymn, most people would reply, "O Come, O Come Emmanuel." In fact, that may be the only Advent hymn they know by name, ... Read More

The Catholic Church in America lost its first Jesuit cardinal on Friday, December 12, 2008, when Avery Cardinal Dulles passed into eternal life. Cardinal Dulles was the son of ... Read More

A reader writes: Can a baptized Catholic, who was never raised in the Church at all, and is now well into his adulthood, go to his first and then frequent Confession, ... Read More

There has been much talk about the War on Christmas in recent years, and it's hard to deny that objections to the public celebration of Christmas have been on the ... Read More

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During Advent, as we prepare for the birth of Christ, we also celebrate one of the great feasts of the Catholic Church. The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (December ... Read More

A reader writes: I've read about the custom of leaving shoes out for Saint Nicholas to put treats in on his feast day, and I'd like to start this with my ... Read More

Here in the United States, President-elect Barack Obama has promised to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) if Congress passes it. FOCA would remove all state restrictions on ... Read More

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Each month, Pope Benedict XVI announces his special prayer intentions--particular things that he wishes all Catholics to pray for that month. (When, for instance, we pray the rosary and ... Read More