Classical education has exploded in the last ten years, and for good reason. Education has descended into a utilitarian pursuit, though...

As an American, I find great inspiration in the documents that laid the foundation for our nation and in the lives of the men and women...

In a recent interview with The Pillar, Dr. Frank Ronge, a veteran German Catholic bureaucrat who coordinates the German Synodal Path,...

Recently, I gave a talk on “Catholic Friendship” at Our Lady of Victory High School here in Denver—a fabulous school, by the way. It was...

Photo provided by First Things. This article was first written on September 27th for First Things by our friend Fran X. Maier. Speaking...

“Make everything you can a sacrifice.” – The Angel of Portugal to the three Fatima children Sacrifice stands before us as the hidden key...

According to the Vatican yearbook, the Annuario Pontificio , there are north of 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world today. They share...

Photo: Adobe Stock What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up today? Chances are it wasn’t God, but you were instead...

In her prescient book, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, Mary Ann Glendon of the Harvard Law School warned her...

“Hallow,” the prayer app that debuted in 2018, is one of the most popular spiritual tools on the planet, having been downloaded some 14...

Do we really have to have a funeral Mass (or funeral liturgy outside of Mass)? What if no one is going to come? The answer to these two...

My hands were shaky a quarter-century ago as I carried the heavy box from the front door of our house into my study. Inside were my...

COMMENTARY: Denver’s FIRE Foundation’s mission champions students with disabilities in Catholic schools by providing educational...

“Inculturation” has been a Catholic buzzword for over a half-century. It’s not the most elegant neologism, smacking as it does of...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) Pope St. John Paul II wrote in Laborem Exercens , “It is certainly true that work, as a human issue, is at the very...

After writing about mission and the call to holiness , I was asked to answer this question: “How did extraordinary ministers of holy...

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Amidst a presidential campaign in which many of our countrymen deplore the choices we face in November, let’s take a break, follow the...

I’m at 35,000 feet where, thanks to the miracle of modern satellite technology, I can do something I rarely do: watch daytime TV –...

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), rhetorically oversold as the “U.S. Church’s anti-poverty program” – Do no other such...