On a recent Sunday morning, I traveled to a conference center on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., where 75 of our permanent deacons were convened for their biennial convocation, along with many of their wives. On arrival, one could sense a very joyful and connected group, having prayed, deliberated and socialized together the whole weekend.Read More

Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, who converted to the Catholic faith while on death row for a murder conviction that was later overturned, were among 23 men and women appointed to the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment July 10 in Annapolis.Read More

“The priest makes the message joyful by his whole being,” the pope said, and it is in “little things” that this joy is best shared.Read More

As his wife undergoes a gradual conversion to evangelical Christianity an aggressively atheistic Chicago journalist uses his investigative skills to try to disprove the Resurrection, and with it the faith.Read More

Rocky Wagonhurst and Marianne Banister Wagonhurst, founders of the Claire Marie Foundation, sit down with the Catholic Review.Read More

Scholarship funding, paid sick leave and the withdrawal of a bill that would have legalized physician-assisted suicide were among the highlights of the legislative session.Read More

Justice Neil Gorsuch said he would be “a faithful servant of the Constitution” and of the laws “of this great nation.”Read More

Conlon has seen and done things you wouldn’t believe – he just can’t tell you about them.Read More