On Friday, March 2, something happened at the Colorado state capitol that hasn’t happened in over 100 years. Lawmakers in the state House...

About five years ago, a friend took her son with her when she went to a beauty shop to get her hair cut. The hairdresser was snipping...

In his June 1908 apostolic constitution, Sapienti Consilio , Pope Pius X decreed that, as of November 3 that year, the Catholic Church in...

(Photo: Pexels) When I was a kid, my favorite television show was The Partridge Family . Mostly because I was completely enamored of the...

When teaching college students a few years ago, I was shocked when I asked my students to tell me what they knew about Pope St. John Paul...

The scriptures of Lent in the Church’s daily liturgy invite two related reflections. The weeks immediately preceding Easter call us to...

When we began Lent on Ash Wednesday, the Lord said to us, “return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;...

A few weeks before Ash Wednesday, an Associated Press squib with Lenten implications appeared in the Washington Post sports section: *...

Catholics understand sex as a mutual giving of self, which should express the love and fruitfulness of marriage. The mutual giving that...

Europe’s wholesale abandonment of its Christian faith is often explained as the inevitable by-product of modern social, economic, and...

We live in a culture that is very confused about love, particularly the sexual aspect of love. This confusion, combined with our fallen...

We celebrate Catholic Schools Week beginning January 28th. That day also marks the feast of the patron of Catholic schools, St. Thomas...

Ever since Thomas Kuhn popularized it with his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , the notion of a “paradigm shift” has...

In recent years we have witnessed a growing tendency to promote suicide as a way of resolving end-stage suffering. Physician-assisted...

In the history of U.S. Catholic higher education since World War II, three seminal moments stand out: Msgr. John Tracy Ellis’s 1955...

Editor’s Note: This column is adapted from Archbishop Aquila’s remarks to the 2018 Celebrate Life March, which took place on January 13th...

This past December 18, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the department of external relations of the Russian Orthodox...

Last year, I spent a raucous New Year’s Eve in San Francisco, celebrating with some of my oldest and dearest friends against the backdrop...

In his monumental video series, Catholicism, Bishop Robert Barron took us on a guided tour of the major themes of the Catholic faith. He...

I won’t venture into classical Roman literature, which is not my forte, but I will say with assurance that the greatest modern Latin pun...