Weeks after protesters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the Inner Harbor, members of Baltimore’s Italian-American community are developing a plan to reproduce the marble monument so it can be displayed in a more secure location.

On the July 19 episode of Catholic Review Radio, Dawn Walsh, director of the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes, shares with host Father Brian Nolan the gift of taking a summer drive and pilgrimage to the Emmitsburg shrine.

The Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy issued a new instruction on pastoral care that specifies the role of lay men and women in the church’s mission of evangelization and offers guidance in parish reforms and restructuring.

French police have opened an arson investigation into a fire at a Gothic cathedral in Nantes.

Ordinary headlights. Ordinary moths. An ordinary evening. But together they formed an extraordinary moment of wonder. As I watched, the car turned off its lights, the moths disappeared, and it was over.