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…

Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Lord God, the world is full of tribulations. Let us not beget more violence in this world, but rather bring such things to an end. Engender in us not hatred and grudges, but forgiveness and…

Thursday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time Lord Jesus, our salvation is a distant goal unless we reconcile ourselves to others, until there is peace in our homes and in our world. Make us then instruments of your peace, that we might end…

Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church Lord Jesus, yours is the new law, by which all the world may find salvation. No longer Jew or Gentile, but brother and sister walking the way of salvation. You are the…