Fr. Ronald M. Vierling, M.F.C., M.A., M.Div. is an instructor of theology at Lansdale Catholic High School (Archdiocese of Philadelphia) and is Webmaster of Internet Padre and Learning the Faith: ...

Over time, the practice of etiquette — like any program of repeated behaviour — truly changes one’s outlook, not just one’s outward manner. That was my experience, at any rate: The need to hew to a ...

Catholic Education Resource CenterFrance’s Catholic Church will welcome more than 10,384 adult catechumens at Easter this year, marking a 45% increase from 2024 figures, according to data released by ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us about faith and belief; what Veritatis Splendor teaches us about today’s insidious and dishonest moral relativism; what Evangelium Vitae teaches us ...

Bishop James Conley Most Reverend James D. Conley, DD., STL, is the bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. Before his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to the see of Lincoln in September 2012, he served as ...

Dante in the Underworld by George Augustus Wallis. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I was 24, I was asked at the last minute to substitute teach a religious education class at ...

Martin Barillas is a writer and translator, having once served as a U.S. diplomat in Europe and South America. A lifelong Catholic, he resides in Michigan with his wife, Alice, with whom he has four ...

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Woodward Fire – Burnt Trees and Ash, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons We are all familiar with Blessed John Paul II’s description of the Culture of Death in his 1995 encyclical, Evangelium ...

Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm ...

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Josef Pieper was a German Catholic philosopher at the forefront of the Neo-Thomistic wave in twentieth-century Catholic philosophy. Among his most notable works are The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence ...