Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, recently told an Italian journal that relations between the Vatican and the...

Cardinal Robert Sarah is one of the adornments of the Catholic Church, although it’s very unlikely that this man of faith, humor,...

God has a plan for your life that is unique, only you can fulfill it, and it will bring you true happiness.” This is the message I give...

The recent letter from the Department of Education on bathroom and locker room policy for students with gender confusion has generated a...

On May 13th, the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Education issued a joint directive to public school districts,...

If Catholics in the United States are going to be healers of our wounded culture, we’re going to have to learn to see the world through...

Two days after that circular firing-squad known as the “Republican primaries” came to a de facto conclusion on the banks of the Wabash,...

In Pope Benedict XVI’s Encyclical, Charity in Truth, he taught that: To love someone is to desire that person’s good and to take...

Two weeks ago I issued a statement saying that I would study Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, “ Amoris Laetitia ,” or “The Joy of...

I just recently attended my eldest child’s middle-school choir concert. As I watched her sing her heart out up on the stage–this daughter...

The Catholic love affair with the United States of America is heading into rough and uncharted waters – and not only in this 2016...

During talks around the country in recent years, I’ve been asking Catholic audiences how many of those present know the date of their...

Time Magazine’s April 10 cover story raised a topic that is rarely discussed – how pornography is biologically and psychologically...

The announcement that Archbishop Christoph Pierre will succeed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States is...

At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver is calling Pope Francis’ recent letter on marriage and family “both relevant and important for our...

“Holiness is not for wimps, and the Cross isn’t negotiable, sweetheart. It’s a requirement,” the late Mother Angelica once told a caller...

In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed were known as “martyr-confessors.” It’s...

When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church...

“Christ my hope is arisen!” This line from the sequence sang at Easter Sunday Mass captures the heart of what happens in our redemption –...