It’s not that often that bishops are able to announce the kind of good news I am about to share with you. As I write this column, the...

One hundred years ago, on November 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s revolution that had...

Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after the October 31 quincentenary of Luther’s 95 theses , there was no single...

Just a few weeks ago I learned with great sadness that a middle school and high school student in Littleton took their lives within two...

In my last review, I looked at a number of new books on Martin Luther and genuine reformers in the Catholic tradition. In light of the...

Hero, villain, heretic, saint, reformer, corrupter, man of integrity, bombastic glutton. Which image of Luther should we believe? Because...

In the latest round of debate over Amoris Laetitia , Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, a fervent defender...

John Paul II called the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 to assess what had gone right and what had gone wrong in two decades of implementing...

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 2: Mourners attend a candlelight vigil at the corner of Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard for the victims of...

…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once...

In the coming weeks, I will be joining Catholics and other pro-lifers in the 40 Days for Life campaign of prayer, fasting and witness....

During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke for...

On October 13th, Archbishop Aquila will consecrate of the Archdiocese of Denver to Our Lady of Fatima, at the Cathedral Basilica of the...

When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning , was published in 2010, I thought I was finished with...

“Education,” St. John Bosco often said, “is the great art of forming human beings.” And this is what happens every day across the...

CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S....

Our standards have been lowered when it comes to intelligent discourse from our politicians. Therefore, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Sasse’s...

During the entire liturgical year, there are only two saints whose birth the Church celebrates: John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin...

When I was first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School,...

To the DREAMERS of Colorado, I have been following closely the status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and...