Catholics are often asked — or even aggressively challenged — to clear up confusion on a matter of Church doctrine, or to explain certain practices of piety and devotion, or to defend the Church’s ...

First things first: this is the closest I have seen to the book I always wanted to write and never found the time to do. The title of the book is Web of Faith: A Curious Catholic's Answers to ...

Churches should welcome questions. That doesn’t require embracing perpetual doubt. There are many possible answers to this question. How you answer it reveals a great deal not only about yourself—your ...

Father Stan Chu Ilo, a professor at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University in Chicago, and Meghan J. Clark, a professor of moral theology at St. John's ...

Q: I read your column every week. I was particularly interested in a question from M in Gainesville about faith being more important than works. My 12 years of Catholic education didn't include too ...