On All Souls’ Day last year, I accompanied several priests and students of Rome’s Pontifical North American College to a Mass being...

On March 27, 1996, Muslim extremists kidnapped seven Trappist monks from their monastery in the Atlas Mountains near Algiers. After two...

Today’s scandal-time has inevitably raised questions about the celibate priesthood. Most polls indicate that a significant majority of...

Over the past several months, as story after story of clerical misconduct filled the papers and the news broadcasts, I have thought time...

However grim the present circumstances may seem, many of the pre-requisites for a thoroughgoing revitalization of the priesthood in...

Baseball and movies don’t often play well together. William Bendix as a Marine who dies happy in “Guadalcanal Diary” because he’s just...

One of the reasons the Catholic Church in America finds itself embroiled in scandal and spiritual crisis is that we have not taken the...