The faithful around the world celebrate Holy Saturday on April 8, 2023. Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday, is the day that some believe Jesus — his body in his tomb — descended into hell for ...

Pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday to pray the Angelus prayer at noon with Pope Benedict XVI. In his remarks, the Pontiff spoke of the importance of angels and also prayed for those ...

The focus of the Book of Hebrews is perseverance. It’s about finding strength to press on in the faith when things get difficult. Our text this morning starts off in a rather unexpected way—insisting ...

In this last post we consider the role of the angels at the parousia (the second coming) and the glory that awaits those who have been faithful. The final chapters in the Cardinal’s book, on the ...

Each year, thousands of faithful pilgrims purposefully pass over the Tiber River via Rome’s Ponte Sant’Angelo, where marble messengers lining the bridge recall Christ’s passion through the sacred ...

The Gospels according to Saint Matthew and Saint Luke narrate the three different temptations of Jesus in the wilderness. Immediately after his baptism by John ...

I really enjoy writing Christmas poems, and have composed fourteen since 1996. It's a very different form of writing for an apologist like myself, whose subject matter is almost exclusively ...

The gold-plated Angel Moroni seems to be losing his perch atop Latter-day Saint temples. Not on the Salt Lake Temple, of course. That angel was taken down for repairs amid the iconic structure’s ...