Book cover of ‘The High Hallow: Tolkien’s Liturgical Imagination’
A new book explores how J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholic faith — and especially the Mass — shaped...
The coats of arms of Popes John Paul II (top left), Francis (top right), Benedict XVI (lower left) and Leo XIV.
Leo XIV draws deeply from the Church’s past to...
Pope Leo XIV leads the May 11 Regina Coeli prayer from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. INSET: El Viñedo de Raquel receives a blessing from the future...
Friends, today’s Gospel gives us the Our Father. It asks that God’s will be done “on earth as it is in heaven,” but biblical cosmology sees these two realms as interpenetrating fields of force.
The Our Father is our foundational prayer as Catholics. If you’re like me, you’ve said it a few times. As in, a few thousand times. Tens of thousands if you pray the Rosary or Divine Office regularly.
Michael Schattle spent his adult life as a missionary — first, in a traditional sense, as a FOCUS Catholic missionary, then, through active involvement in young adult communities. At the age of...