A year ago today Pope John Paul II was beatified in a ceremony at Saint Peter’s Square, just six years after his death. Last month I visited both John Paul’s hometown of Wadowice and the Archdiocesan Museum of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła in Kraków during a trip to Poland
The biblical foundation for a celibate priesthood is flimsy, and now cracks are beginning to show in the Catholic church’s ban on marriage for those in holy orders
Even the most iconic of religious artworks can have profound meanings for the nonbeliever
Benedict has rejected the rich Catholic tradition of interpreting heaven in terms of the most intense human experiences
