While we might associate Feb. 14 with St. Valentine, in the Roman calendar it is also the feast day of two of the most important men in the history of Eastern Europe. Sts. Cyril (826–869) and Methodius (815–885), recognized by St. John…

The annual March for Life in Washington that marks the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing abortion in January 1973 is an intriguing affair. It is a surreal sight, seeing so many different people from across the nation rallying around a single…

The great medieval saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) famously said there are three ways of interpreting the Advent season. More specifically, the three ways of understanding the coming of Christ which the Advent season anticipates. For…

This Dec. 1, I was witness to a peculiar ritual no doubt occurring in many of your own hometowns around this time of year. Much of the town gathered around a large pine tree, moving around to keep themselves warm in moist, cold New England…

Clare Asquith is the author of Shakespeare and the Resistance (PublicAffairs, 2018), a book in which she argues that William Shakespeare harbored Catholic sympathies and covertly critiqued the religious fabric of his age through his…

The combatants are the greatest and wealthiest nations of the earth; what wonder, then, if, well provided with the most awful weapons modern military science has devised, they strive to destroy one another with refinements of horror. There…

For this feast day of St. Dominic, Catholic Digest reached out to both a Dominican friar and Franciscan friar to ask them both about a unique tradition. Each year, on the feast days of the respective saints of their orders (St. Dominic on…

We need to be reminded of the good in people. Year by year, the Holocaust fades further and further from memory and finds permanent rest in the annals of history. There will be a point, certainly during some of our lives, when there will be…

Bl. Paul VI promulgated his landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae (The transmission of human life) 50 years ago on July 25, 1968. To understand the document, its impact, and how it remains applicable today, Catholic Digest spoke with …

Optional Memorial of St. Romuald, Abbot Lord, we are surrounded by wolves, who seek to feast upon the faithful and destroy your Church. Let us not dwell only among ourselves O Lord, but go out among these predators, and spread to them your…