Forming our conscience is key to living in Christ’s love, a “love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,” moving us to “wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. [But] by rejecting conscience, certain persons have made shipwreck of their faith” (1 Timothy 1:5,18-19). To help […]Read more

Today we celebrate a great solemnity which in some places is even a holy day of obligation.  We honor St. Joseph, the Husband of Mary and Foster Father of Jesus, the Son of God.  Though not one word of his is recorded in the Gospels, he was a powerful presence in the life of the […]Read more

St. Patrick was born in the year 389 in the Roman colony of Britain.  As the Roman Empire collapsed, Irish pirates crossed the channel and invaded Britain, taking many captives as slaves, including the sixteen-year-old Patrick.  In Ireland his master put him to work watching over herds of animals as they grazed.  However, this enslavement […]Read more

Just as we doubt about what or how to say something, sometimes we have doubts, uncertainty, or fears about what we should do. Forming our conscience responsibly includes developing the virtue of prudence, the habit of properly exercising the conscience, knowing when we can trust its formation and the need to act on its judgments. […]Read more

Ashley Noronha joined John Morales on Morning Air to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s catechesis from February 25, 2026. Although there was no public Wednesday General Audience due to the Holy Father’s annual retreat, he still offered a profound reflection, this time to the Roman Curia gathered in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace. The […]Read more

Pope Leo XIV continued his pastoral visits throughout the Diocese of Rome with a stop on March 1 at the Ascension of the Lord Parish in Quarticciolo, a suburban neighborhood in the eastern part of the city. As the Bishop of Rome, he came with the hopes of strengthening a community facing real challenges with […]Read more

Some say: Ignorance is bliss, because it excuses them to do what really want to do. Yet only invincible ignorance of a person who has no possibility of knowing the morality of an act excuses. Such ignorance is common among small children and very uneducated people. If… the ignorance is invincible, or the moral subject […]Read more

On the First Sunday of Lent, Pope Leo XIV used his Angelus address to call the faithful to embrace this sacred season as a time of purification and renewal. Reflecting on the Gospel account of Jesus’ temptation in the desert, the Holy Father reminded Catholics that Lent is not merely a period of sacrifice, but […]Read more