Acutis, who loved playing video games and teaching himself computer coding, could become the first ‘gamer saint’
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Only five witches were executed in Wales, while thousands were sentenced to death in Scotland and England.
The story of how a ‘new Pompeii’ was built is far less well known than that of the ancient city.
Indigenous Catholics have long argued they should be able to embrace both sides of that identity.
The Bible is full of strong men and pumped prophets.
The ancient tenebrae tradition brings churchgoers face to face with the darkest moments of the Christian story.
A spate of recent high-profile murders has put focus on the role of patriarchy and misogyny in persistent rates of anti-woman violence in Italy.
Accounts of Asian American history often stop at the US border, but Asians were living in Latin America for centuries before the Declaration of Independence.
The Bible remains the most important collection of books in Western civilisation. Regardless of our religious beliefs, it has shaped all of us. But who wrote it? The answer is complicated.
Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century and a half of history.
The famous apparition of the Virgin Mary has come to symbolize Mexico, but other groups – particularly migrants and Latinos north of the border – also feel a special connection to Guadalupe.
Witchcraft is an enduring source of fascination but also prone to popular misconceptions.
Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality is attempting to move the church toward a more dialogue-based model of authority, a scholar of Catholicism explains.
Ruth’s headline-grabbing home runs helped his sport recover from scandal, while his own story helped combat anti-Catholic prejudice.
Divisions and tensions in the global church are affecting the church in Africa.
Integral ecology, a holistic way of looking at problems the world faces today, is key in the pope’s writings about the environment.
As the Synod of Bishops meets in Rome, a Catholic theologian explains the preparations that went into the consultative process and what it says about Pope Francis’ vision for the future church.
Medieval monastics were often discouraged from owning companion animals, which were viewed as a distraction, a religion scholar explains.
I was drawn to Mary as a saint, an ascetic, a highly sexual individual navigating her own redemption. Is there something edifying about her story – or does it go into the feminist shame file?
Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago,
left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today.
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Professor of Public Theology and Director of The Bernardin Center, Catholic Theological Union
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