One of the most significant theologians of the 20th century, whose work profoundly affected the thought of Popes Benedict XVI and Francis, will soon be on the road to sainthood. At a Mass Dec. 16, the ...

ROME – Rome, in many ways, is a company town, dominated by two major industries – Italian political life and the national government, symbolized in the city’s Quirinal Palace (to Italians, simply the ...

In his recent encylical Laudato Si, Pope Francis often quotes Romano Guardini (1885-1968), an Italian-born German theologian and philosopher, whose book The End of the Modern World was particularly ...

In the days since Pope Francis’ promulgation of Desiderio Desideravi — his apostolic letter on liturgical formation — detractors have bemoaned yet another exhortation to undertake liturgical formation ...

Michael Sean Winters: In a letter on the liturgy, published last week, Pope Francis, in line with Vatican II, again invites all Catholics to drink deeply from the wellspring of our faith, the paschal ...