Every afternoon in downtown Denver, homeless men, women and children are given shelter, food and a place to wash themselves. Not far...

Almost a quarter-century ago, Father Jay Scott Newman, back in Rome to finish a graduate degree after his priestly ordination in...

The vacation season is an opportunity to escape TwitterWorld and do some serious reading. These books will help make your summer...

On November 24, 2013, Pope Francis displayed St. Peter’s bones publicly for the first time. This momentous occasion culminated the...

Two high profile suicides in four days.  Awful. In the wake of the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, my Facebook feed has been...

The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during the Easter season struck me as...

With hundreds of bishops coming to the Vatican in October 2001 for a Synod, I decided to spend that month in Rome conducting interviews...

I wasn’t surprised by the result of Ireland’s May 25 referendum, which opened a path to legal abortion in the Emerald Isle by striking...

“You are anxious and troubled about many things, but only one thing is necessary.” We recognize Jesus’ response to the busy Martha in...

Did you know that we see hundreds if not thousands of advertisements a day? In fact, the consensus among marketing researchers is that...

The bizarre comment and the weird gesture have not, until recently, been associated with high-ranking churchmen. Both, alas, were on...

A chapter in a remarkable American and Catholic life will close on June 6, when Abbot Thomas Frerking, OSB, concludes more than two...

Happy Humanae Vitae 50th Anniversary! I don’t know about you, but for me it’s been a whirlwind.  Parties, parades, some great fireworks...

If someone asked you if you could prove that God exists, what would you say? What would you have to draw upon to answer this question —...

You’ve probably never heard of the Waupoos Family Farm. I hadn’t either, until I met some folks involved in it during a recent visit to...

The Apostles, cowering in fear, locked in the Upper Room, were waiting until the threat to their lives had subsided. While they hid,...

DENVER, CO - MAY 13: Fr. Francesco Basso and Fr. Daniel Eusterman process down the aisle after their ordination to the priesthood at the...

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Romans 12:2). People tell me pretty regularly that...

In a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, suggested that certain critics of a deal between the...

The moment you first see a child on the ultrasound monitor at the doctor’s office is truly breathtaking. You see the baby moving, you...