One of the most powerful moments in the sacramental lives of Catholics occurs when we walk into a confessional, lay our sins at the feet...

LONGMONT, CO, August 13, 2017: Pastor installation ceremony for Father Humberto Marquez at St. John the Baptist Parish in Longmont....

Pope Francis’s recent motu proprio on sexual abuse, Vos estis lux mundi [You Are the Light of the World], was a welcome addition to...

May is the month of Mary, a time of new growth and a return to life fitting for the New Eve. Blessed John Henry Newman spoke of how...

Given the seriousness with which the post-Watergate Washington Post takes itself, it seems unlikely that its editors strive for hilarity...

Many people are worried about the increasing levels of violence in our country, and over the past week, three states passed laws that...

In three weeks, a panel of senior judges will hear Cardinal George Pell’s appeal of the unjust verdict rendered against him at his...

A sacrament is an outward, material sign of an inward, spiritual reality. The seven sacraments are signs instituted by Jesus to...

There are many uncertainties in life, but as the Church observed World Vocation Day on May 12, I want to remind everyone — especially...

[On May 8, the Library of Congress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars co-hosted a tribute to Dr. James H....

In Herman Wouk’s novel, War and Remembrance , Warren Henry shocks his Bible-reading father, the novel’s hero, by claiming that human...

Lately I’m seeing lots of studies — or, more accurately, articles about studies — claiming that non-parents are happier than parents. The...

For over a half-century, what styles itself the “pro-choice” movement has thrived because of its extraordinary ability to mask what it’s...

by Charles Lewis I am watching Notre Dame Cathedral burn on television from my living room in Toronto. I want to look away but I cannot....

When the famous cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris went up in flames April 15, you could see and hear the pain in the faces and voices of...

Published a week short of his 92nd birthday, Joseph Ratzinger’s essay on the epidemiology of the clergy sex-abuse crisis vividly...

Some two millennia ago, a ragtag bunch of nobodies learned what their tortured and executed friend, the rabbi Jesus from Nazareth, meant...

I saw the movie Unplanned this weekend. It hit me hard. Not that I suddenly realized abortion is wrong. I have known that since I was a...

“Do not be afraid!” the angel told Mary Magdalene, “I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has been...

Readers of a certain vintage (say, over 60) will remember the Imperial Margarine TV ad that dismissed butter as “the high-priced spread.”...