Among the tenured professorial skeptics, few Gospel episodes have been sliced, diced, and tossed to the dissecting room floor as...

I really wanted to start this column any way except, “Well, it’s been an unusual year.”  Seeing as how virtually every article you read...

Joshua Wong is a young Chinese human rights activist, recently sentenced to 13 and a half months in prison on the Orwellian charge of...

This Christmas will be unlike any other in recent memory as we celebrate Jesus’ birth amid the pandemic. And as difficult as this...

Advent focuses on three comings of Christ, according to St. Bernard: “In the first coming he was seen on earth, dwelling among men; he...

From 1991 until 2005, Cardinal Camillo Ruini served Pope John Paul II as the papal Vicar for Rome – the man who handled the daily affairs...

How bad a year has it been? Let me not count the ways. Good books can hearten us in 2021 and beyond, though. Herewith, then, some...

Let’s talk about racism. A caveat to this article is that I am a white, straight, Christian male, and as such I have not had a lived...

To the faithful of the Archdiocese of Denver, In the summer of 2018, revelations about former cardinal Theodore McCarrick and the...

Every Sunday, we pray a dangerous prayer: “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” It’s dangerous...

The juxtaposition of Thanksgiving with the Church’s annual month of prayer for the dead hadn’t previously struck me with force; that it...

By Kateri Williams Most Catholics are familiar with the Marian apparition sites in France, Portugal and Mexico.  Yet, many are unaware of...

From the day it was announced that the Vatican would conduct an investigation into the career of former Washington cardinal-archbishop...

(Photo: Brett Jordan / Unsplash) Dear Admin, As you may recall, I’m a member — oops, check that, WAS a member — of your Facebook group...

God’s grace flows through us like a river, washing us and nourishing his divine life in us. His grace flows freely when we let go of the...

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: There are many exemplars of the cardinal virtue of courage in the Catholic Church today: Catholics...

“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but only one thing is necessary” (Lk 10:41-42). It would be easy to...

The Pandemic of 2020 has been hard on every Catholic. Eucharistic fasting for this length of time may remind us what 20th century heroes...

Sixty years ago, Father John Courtney Murray, SJ, published what I regard as the finest Catholic analysis of American democracy ever...

Our country has been through a lot this last year, as we all know. As many people have reacted against the founding and history of the...