We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of many that...

I can’t remember another Advent when the contrast was so stark. As Catholics we are preparing our hearts and homes to celebrate the...

It’s been a good reading year and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not “holiday”) shopping list: God or...

My husband and I recently celebrated our fourth anniversary of being received into the Catholic Church.  Our conversion is still somewhat...

As I write, just before Thanksgiving, it’s been over a month since Synod-2015 finished its work. Yet there is still no official...

We are about to begin the season of Advent, when we prepare to welcome Jesus with the joy of those who have been rescued from their sins....

Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up in the process, President...

JERUSALEM. Walking through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on my first visit here in fifteen years, I was powerfully...

In a few short weeks, we will celebrate the beginning of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, which has great potential to bring many people back...

Several years ago, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based summer seminar on Catholic social...

TRIGGER WARNING: This column will speak well of Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and compare him favorably to...

TRIGGER WARNING: This column will speak well of Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and compare him favorably to...

ROME.  Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod-2015, something genuinely new in the life of the Church began, and it shouldn’t escape our...

ROME. During Synod-2015, I’ve been reading John Martin Robinson’s Cardinal Consalvi: 1757-1824 , a biography of Pope Pius VII’s secretary...

The idea that Catholics should be allowed to remarry and receive communion did not begin with the letter signed by Cardinal Kasper and...

ROME. The great Piazza San Pietro is a five minute walk from where I’m living during Synod-2015. About three-quarters of the Square is...

ROME. Since Pope Francis announced that two Synods would examine the contemporary crisis of marriage and the family and work to devise...

He came to America and encountered us in the streets, schools and historic places where we gathered. Pope Francis’ first visit to the...

The XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family begins with Mass in St. Peter’s on October 4. No synod in modern...

When I processed into St. Mary Magdalene church, I was filled with gratitude for the six Sisters of Life who sat in two pews toward the...