Jesus regularly challenged his followers, inviting them to put the kingdom first by denying themselves and taking up their cross. Jesus...

Jesus makes a startling statement at the Last Supper: “It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor...

How is wine related to charity? Although we may think of consuming wine as something simply pleasant and enjoyable, Jesus used it as an...

The world does not think like God. If we were to plan how to stage the most important moment in history, it might involve a great...

This February will mark nine years since the historic renunciation of Pope Benedict XVI. Joseph Ratzinger would have gone down in history...

Without God, our sense of human dignity quickly erodes. Although we tend to equate civilization with an increase in wealth and comfort,...

As we wrestle with how to hand on the faith, knowing that we are facing a general breakdown in its transmission, we can point to some...

We are born to die. This inevitable fact could lead to fatalism, although, more often, we simply fall into denial. We avoid thinking...

In the Eucharist, we possess the greatest gift. Within it, Jesus gives us his entire self — body, blood, soul, and divinity — to be...

This year we celebrate the Year of Dante, marking 700 years since the poet’s death on September 14, 1321. It is fitting that Dante died...

Ugliness is a spiritual problem. If beauty manifests the perfection and splendor of something, ugliness distorts it, corrupting...

Rarely do I find myself looking to modern Hollywood for morality tales, either on screen or in headlines. And yet, every once in a while,...

How would you know if you were being brainwashed? When something plainly false — contrary to common sense and right reason — is so...

The Year of St. Joseph points us to Jesus’ adoptive father, Joseph, as the essential model for fathers. Joseph not only manifests genuine...

You don’t have to be a doom and gloomer to see that things are unravelling very quickly in our country. Two metrics are enough to prove...

The Church has had a rocky relationship with the modern world, to say the least. It’s all the more difficult that contemporary culture...

Where would we be without our mothers? We wouldn’t be! Father Gregory Cleveland, OMV, shares a beautiful quote...

Joseph — son of David, husband of Mary, the humble builder, and adoptive father of the Messiah — stands as one of the greatest saints in...

“Are you saved?” This is something you might hear after the doorbell rings. “What does that even mean?” you might wonder, as you think of...

Once, an editor of The Times newspaper asked G.K. Chesterton, “What is wrong with the world?” Chesterton, the great master of common...