In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new Portuguese edition of my Letters to a Young Catholic was being prepared as a...

Universal Pictures Cillian Murphy, who beautifully evokes the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in  Christopher Nolan’s new film , wears,...

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological term for the mental stress or discomfort we feel when we are confronted with new information...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Specifically, healing podcasts. Because everybody needs healing....

Pope Benedict XVI often said that, in today’s skeptical and cynical world, the saints make a more persuasive case for the truth of...

Conservatives often receive a bad rap as negative reactionaries who continually complain about the state of society and the Church....

One of the worst of contemporary hymn-texts bids us to “Sing a new Church into being.” Not only does this injunction debase the noble...

(Photo: dole777 / Unsplash) By Mark R. Sanders LPC, CACIII Catholic Charities of Denver’s St. Raphael Counseling I have a love and hate...

It would not be quite accurate to describe the Working Document for the October 2023 Synod (its Instrumentum Laboris , or IL) as...

On first encountering Father Victor B. Galeone at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School in September 1965, my freshman classmates and I...

(Photo: Cytonn Photography / Unsplash) “The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” This joke has been...

We call St. Benedict of Nursia the father of monks, and his teaching on spiritual fatherhood drew me, in part, to become a Benedictine...

Few of the following qualify as “beach reading;” they all qualify as good reading. In graduate school, I was informed that there was no...

Photo by Jochen van Wylick via Unsplash Happy Father’s Day! You also may want to send some congratulations my way. For what may be the...

What do we see at Mass? Often enough, we encounter a mundane vision of outdated architecture, some empty pews, those who made it there...

When I dip into life’s memory bank for moments of unalloyed joy, the afternoon of October 9, 1966, quickly surfaces. On a brilliant...

A few days after Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s appointment as head of a Vatican “peace mission” to “help ease tensions in the conflict in...

Choice. It’s a word that expresses the religion of most Americans: one that centers on the self and the freedom to pursue one’s own...

In a recent article on the social doctrine of John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia...

This is not how things are supposed to be. That’s what comes to mind when I read news headlines these days. Maybe you feel that way too,...