As a Catholic psychologist, I have found that secular people resist the idea of their problems being spiritual, while Christians often...

Father Richard John Neuhaus put two Big Ideas into play in American public life. The first was that the pro-life movement (of which...

Conversations with Father Robert Imbelli have been a great blessing in recent years. I have rarely met a more even-tempered and gracious...

(Photo: Josh Applegate / Unsplash) I think it’s safe to say that people have been a little on edge lately. We see it in the macro, in the...

A story in its most basic form conveys a narrative with a beginning, a middle and an end. It wouldn’t be a good story unless it also had...

By early March 1865, more than a million Americans had killed or wounded each other in civil war; the killing, wounding, and maiming...

In his 2003 encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (The Church from the Eucharist), Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to regain a...

Over the weekend of August 8-9, someone beheaded a statue of St. Jude at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Denver. This attack is one in a...

The Church’s task of evangelization includes restoring human life and culture. Jesus promises in the book of Revelation, “Behold, I make...

Thinking out loud about a return to “Sunday normal,” a veteran pastor recently told me that he thought it would take one year for each...

When God chose to enter the world to save us, he chose Mary, whose deep faith provided the way for Jesus to come among us. She believed...

Dr. Michelle Connor Harris serves as the Clinical Director for St. Raphael Counseling. Imagine that you live in ancient Rome and you are...

Last November 11, on the centenary of its relocation to a 93-acre campus in suburban Washington, D.C., Georgetown Preparatory School...

In February 1968, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła wrote Father Henri de Lubac, SJ, about a project in which the cardinal was engaged: a...

We have come to think of the Church, the gathering of God’s faithful, in primarily spiritual terms. Throughout Christian history,...

During a short papal flight from Boston to New York on October 2, 1979, Father Jan Schotte (later a cardinal but then a low-ranking...

Polemics about the Second Vatican Council continue to bedevil the global Catholic conversation. Some Catholics, often found in the...

“Let us get up then, at last, for the Scriptures rouse us,” the Rule of St. Benedict urges us. “Let us open our eyes to the light … and...

In The Shoes of the Fisherman , crusty old Cardinal Leone, canvassing votes for a surprise candidate just before the election of a new...

As our nation celebrates the day of its independence and subsequent founding as a country on July 4, a look back some...