Acknowledgement DeMarco, Donald. The Virtue of Integrity. Lay Witness (October 1999). Reprinted with permission of Lay Witness magazine. Lay Witness is the flagship publication of Catholics United for ...

In the early martyrologies, three different St. Valentines are mentioned, all sharing Feb. 14 for a feast day. Unfortunately, the historical record is sparse. The first St. Valentine was a priest and ...

Vatican II in Session, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. “The appearance of the church in the modern era shows that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens, and ...

Who Burned the Witches? The stench of their burning is with us yet. The stakes and gibbets where witches perished by the tens of thousands during early modern times still stand in popular imagination.

The official process for declaring someone a saint is called canonization. Prior to the year 1234, the Church did not have a formal process as such. Usually martyrs and those recognized as holy were ...

THE ART OF TEACHING How does God the Father teach His children? He accepts His children as they are, and He works to free them from sin and to draw them to Himself. God the Father works through the ...

St. Paul writes to the Philippians of the glory that our currently lowly bodies will one day enjoy: He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified Body by the power that enables him also ...

Christopher West Christopher West is a research fellow and faculty member of the Theology of the Body Institute. Christopher has lectured around the world and on a number of prestigious faculties, ...

Theology of the Body from Eden to Today There is much excitement today, especially among the young, about John Paul II’s “theology of the body” — the 129 catechetical addresses he gave between 1979 ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us about faith and belief; what Veritatis Splendor teaches us about today’s insidious and dishonest moral relativism; what Evangelium Vitae teaches us ...

His readers are numerous and ever growing, drawn to his scriptural and Aristotelian-Thomistic view of the world, a world that he sees as a created order for which the Creator has appointed us stewards ...

Acknowledgement Christopher Kaczor. “Seven Principles of Catholic Social Teaching.” Catholic Answers Magazine (April, 2007). Reprinted with permission from Catholic Answers. The premier magazine of ...