COMMENTARY: The threats to human dignity and the sanctity of life that Jérôme Lejeune and John Paul II strove so mightily to resist have intensified.

Only a few years after being rocked by a clergy sex abuse coverup, the Diocese of Crookston is embracing its outsize role in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage as a sign of healing and a moment of renewal.

This weekend, the faithful embark across the Golden Gate Bridge, to traverse the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and the Midwest’s Great Plains, as a public witness to the Church’s teaching that the Eucharist is truly the Body of Jesus Christ.

Here’s a guide to finding all the stops along the four pilgrimage routes. Collectively, the routes will traverse 6,500 miles, 27 states and 65 dioceses while carrying Christ in the Eucharist.

What is Tolkien’s contribution to his fellow man but celebration in the eucatastrophe — a happy ending that comes after a journey fraught with peril?

Decisions in cases involving Mifepristone and emergency-room abortions are expected before the court’s term ends in June.

Italian saint canonized 20 years ago testifies to a life well lived, walking with Christ.

Watch live online as Scallon is named a dame of the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great, established in 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI.