Did you find the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater? Are you tired of the...

OK, call me crazy. But I the only one who remembers, in my formative years, hearing repeatedly from the feminists that feminism was about...

Denver, Colo., Apr 21, 2017 / 05:23 pm ( CNA ).- It’s only been out for a few weeks, but that’s enough time for “13 Reasons Why” to have...

Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a noble endeavor. But such reconciliations...

I was dismayed to learn this past January that the Boy Scouts of America decided to end their practice of more than 100 years that...

In the history of the modern American civil rights movement, three iconic moments are typically cited. May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme...

Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890) – a theologian who came to prominence in the Victorian Age – can help us check the Church’s...

As we approach Holy Week, I am returning to a meditation I have been making in my heart on Jesus’ statement to Pilate, “I came into the...

When I first met Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., more than twenty years ago, I was struck by his boyish demeanor, his exquisite courtesy,...

Evelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, was something of a literary experiment for a modern master of English...

He was a man of silence and action. As we continue to walk through Lent, St. Joseph, the man who is revered as patron of the universal...

The question of “who owns the Church” has had a stormy history in Catholic America, although the terms of reference have changed...

We are living through a dangerous moment in our national life, of an intensity and potential for destruction unseen since 1968. Then, a...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) Following God’s design for how he created us as male and female brings great peace, harmony and unity to marriage,...

A woman wearing a long skirt, with long blonde hair, is dancing and praising God, while silhouetted against the evening sky (Photo: Adobe...

For Lent 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving, and letting my liver have its...

Five-hundred years have passed since the Reformation rippled through the Church, causing painful division and spurring changes. Sadly,...

The best Lent of my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles through ankle-twisting, cobblestoned city streets,...

We are about to begin Lent, the solemn season in which the Church unites herself to what the Catechism calls “the mystery of Jesus in the...

Some preliminaries: I quite agree that the United Nations is a sad, and sometimes malicious, joke. I understand that some people have...