It was revealed this week that, for the first time in its history, Harvard University, which had been founded for religious purposes and...

I was 20 years old when I began using oral contraception.  About to be married and unsure of how pregnancy and children ought to fit with...

Sitting at a writing-desk in the White House on December 11, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt was an unhappy camper. In previous...

The history of popes in these United States is full of surprises. And one of them, to begin at the beginning, includes the little-known...

Seventy-five years ago, on Sunday, September 15, 1940, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine were driven from the prime minister’s...

We agonize, we hunger and we thirst for every couple that comes to us for marriage coaching.  Spouses call with trepidation, send emails...

Some time ago I received advice about a stressful work situation that today remains one of my favorite tools. “The main thing is to keep...

As I write this column, a county clerk from Kentucky, Kim Davis, is behind bars for insisting that she should not be required to obey an...

In 2003, Elizabeth Maguire, publisher of Basic Books, made a proposal: I should write Letters to a Young Catholic as part of a series...

At Christmas 1969, Professor Joseph Ratzinger gave a radio talk with the provocative title, “What Will the Future Church Look Like?” (You...

This week I want to share with you two important themes that have come to me in prayer: the need for prayer and reparation for the...

Looking back on the controversy that preceded Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, I get the impression that there was an even...

In recent years, scientists in industry and academia have come to rely on freshly obtained human tissue specimens for certain types of...

On Catholic campuses that aspire to Top Ten or Top Twenty status in publicity sweepstakes like the U.S. News and World Report college...

Queried about the Holy See’s less-than-vigorous response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, senior Vatican officials are given to saying...

At an inch or so over five feet and weighing, I would guess, something on the underside of 100 pounds, Sister Winnie, a soft spoken...

From this vale of tears, one can never be sure about the boundaries of acceptable behavior at the Throne of Grace. Is laughter at earthly...

The medieval Christian emperor Charlemagne once said, “To have another language is to possess a second soul.” For most of July I had the...

Young man cross the street at a crosswalk Father Randy Dollins In the past couple of weeks I have been overly annoyed by pedestrians. In...

I heard a Christian speaker talking about needing to avoid certain movies and TV shows. Is it really a big deal what kind of...