As a writer and editor, I am fascinated by the human tendency to focus on the negative at the expense of the positive.

Anybody who's seen the movie "Pulp Fiction" probably recalls the scene where John Travolta explains to Samuel L. Jackson that in France, McDonald's calls the quarter-pounder a "Royale with cheese" ...

As many Catholics try to understand what Pope Francis might mean by a "synodal church," he highlighted some of the essential characteristics — especially humility and trust — in homilies and speeches ...

Professor Scott Hahn on Friday, April 4, spoke to Harvard’s Catholic Church, St. Paul’s, about the saving truth of Scripture. Hahn, one of today’s most well-known American Catholic scholars, has ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In trying to live up to Jesus’s message about solidarity with the poor, Pope Francis has called for a church geared to social justice. This pope wants church ...

Ross Douthat at the ‘Civility in America Part 1: Religion’ event held at The Sheen Center in New York, Dec. 13, 2018. (Photo: America/Antonio DeLoera-Brust) Ross Douthat is up to something. He has ...

A man who was abused as a child by paedophile priest Malachy Finegan has urged the Catholic Church to show "humility" in its dealings with victims in a new book. So Young: The Taking of my Life by the ...