My grandfather passed away when I was a young child. He was a firefighter and passed away in the line of duty. I can remember going to...

“The most powerful experience at the National Eucharistic Congress was the Adoration, Father. Tens of thousands of people all turned...

The ecclesiastical propaganda machine created for last October’s Synod on Synodality for a Synodal Church is still grinding away, and...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that, as St. Paul wrote...

Unfortunately, too many of our children and grandchildren have left the Catholic faith. The pressures of this modern world on our young...

Why aren’t we holy? God, in fact, wills that we become holy: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thes 4:3). So why...

Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” In...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) One of the fruits of Satan’s handiwork is a growing lack of civility between individuals and between entire groups...

By Derek Rusnak St. Raphael Counseling "Is anger a sin?" As a Catholic therapist at St. Raphael Counseling, a ministry of Catholic...

Last month, I had the honor of addressing the Civitas Dei Fellowship, which is sponsored by the Dominicans’ Thomistic Institute in...

(Photo by Andy Sanchez) By Daniel Rivas Seminarian for the Archdiocese of Denver St. John Vianney Theological Seminary “Jesus came home...

Temptations in a fallen city, memories of a beautiful woman, a poisoned chalice, the attacks of an envious priest, curses from a pagan...

A long time ago (but not in a galaxy far away), Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School had us reading six or seven books every summer. I...

(Photo: Lightstock) By Edgar Mares Evangelization Specialist Archdiocese of Denver Have you ever reflected on what freedom is? On its...

Rome is chaotic at its calmest, but three weeks working there in May suggested that the chaos has intensified to what may be...

When I was 14, one of my closest friends passed away. I was confused and angry. I didn’t know what to expect. Thankfully, I had my...

“Dad, I’m sorry I haven’t been in better touch.” We were sitting on the porch late at night, two blocks from the beach, with the waves...

According to a source well-positioned to know, one of the behind-the-scenes dramas of the present pontificate involved Pope Francis’s...

Kykkos monastery, Cyprus. The Ladder of Divine Ascent with the good on the right and the bad on the left. (Photo: Adobe Stock) The 1960s...

By Mark Sanders St Raphael Counseling Did you know? Catholic Charities of Denver’s St. Raphael Counseling is the largest Catholic...