The Second Vatican Council’s teaching on the universal call to holiness, in Chapter 5 of Lumen Gentium, was a landmark in the Church’s awareness of the vocation possessed by all the baptized. However, ...

America’s religious identity continues to evolve, and recent Gallup polling from 2025 put a spotlight on a sizable shift ...

Monica Treviso of Carrollton stops by after her work to pray ahead of a mass on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, at the National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Dallas. Shafkat Anowar / Staff ...

What do we lose when we lose organized religion, which has been in steep decline across the globe since 2007? Two new books offer very different answers — and very different approaches — to this ...

This month's question brings us to the end of our journey with the inspiring group of panelists for the seventh season of The Life. While public discussion often highlights declining numbers in ...

Julia Walsh's For Love of the Broken Body: A Spiritual Memoir is a raw account of her early years preparing to become a Catholic sister. Walsh begins the book with the chilling story of a terrible ...

When James Schloegel took his vows as an Augustinian friar this summer, he knelt before the altar in a Chicago church, surrounded by friends, family, and fellow friars. At 32, he had spent years ...

Back in his college days, Benedictine Brother Maximilian Anderson was a self-described “knucklehead.” By his junior and senior years at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, though, he had embraced ...

Two religious sisters serving in the Arlington diocese were honored for a combined 115 years of religious life at a special ...

Another recent study about psychedelics proclaims these drugs can have a transformative impact on users, though in this case, the impact is not only on psychological health, but spiritual health as ...