Summer offers us leisure—time for family, travels, and reading. July also provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of Catholic...

I recently met the good people of St. Benedict Elementary School in South Natick, Massachusetts, which offers classical Catholic...

In the Catholic world, it was a year of silence. Martin Scorsese fulfilled his longstanding dream to adapt Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence...

Hundreds of people were drawn to the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on June 7 for the transfer of Julia Greeley’s mortal...

Three or four times each month, Father X (as I’ll call him here) celebrates the noontime daily Mass I regularly attend. I’m grateful for...

We buried our child yesterday. A child I got to know only though the sound of a heartbeat in a doctor’s office. We listened to that...

Dr. Jared Staudt, PhD, serves as the catechetical formation specialist for the Office of Evangelization and Family Life Ministries. As...

Given the intellectual flimsiness of their work, it’s best to look for cultural causes to explain the “New Atheists”’ popularity. And...

“Progress usually tends to be measured according to the criteria of science and technology. Nor from this point of view has the...

This week I have been thinking about Corpus Christi Sunday – the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ – which we will be celebrating...

Photographs can capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well as...

The evening of September 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having dinner in Cracow with two of John Paul II’s...

Recently, Pope Francis met with a contingent of people who suffer from Huntington’s Disease, a rare genetic illness that causes movement,...

Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral , had appeared in several languages, I was invited to speak to...

Perhaps it was being “overcome with Paschal joy” (as the Prefaces for Easter put it). Maybe it was my guardian angel whispering in my...

Image courtesy of Netflix I watched 13 Reasons Why , so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. I wanted to write about the show, but I wanted...

In the Church’s eternal wisdom, the feasts of Easter and Pentecost fall around the start of baseball season. Some might be tempted to...

The central task of the priest is “to bring God to men and women,” Pope Benedict XVI once told the priests of Rome. Priests are...

I have celebrated eight Mother’s Days so far, being on the receiving end of not quite a decade of handmade cards and hinted-at gift...

If you can find it in your attic, open your old, pre-Vatican II missal, and look at the Sundays between Easter and Pentecost, which are...