“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty...

The traditional Lenten practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are spiritual disciplines to be followed along the...

In our vocations crisis, we mostly focus on the priesthood and religious life, but a new dimension of this crisis falls fast upon us....

Within 24 hours last month, three mainstream Catholic websites ran stories describing Pope Francis’s meeting with the members and...

When I first met Yigal Carmon in November 1988, he was counter-terrorism adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a position he...

January 28 kicks off Catholic Schools Week, timed to coincide with the patron of Catholic education’s feast day, St. Thomas Aquinas. In...

Florida, that land fancied by Ponce de Leon as a bouquet of Paschal flowers, stands at the beginning of the Catholic story of the United...

My friend and colleague Carl Trueman recently observed that “the West is no longer a consortium of serious cultures.” To which I am...

(Photo: Josh Applegate / Unsplash) The notion of work-life balance receives considerable attention in our Western culture. It’s often...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) St. Augustine said, when he was bishop of Hippo, “Change the heart and the work will be changed.” I have found out...

To my mind, the most cringe-inducing moment in the drama of Claudine Gay and her resignation as president of Harvard University was not...

Well, it’s January. January is the month, a few years back, when something happened to my family and me (a story for another time) that...

I began the New Year with another move. My wife, Anne, and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary this past year. During this time, we...

In the apostolic letter Ad Theologiam Promovendam (To Promote Theology), issued by Pope Francis on Nov. 1, 2023, the Church was urged to...

One hesitates to begin the civil new year on a critical note, when hopes of a brighter future run high. But when reality is being...

Catholics have long held that all genuine authority derives from God. Any public official, whether elected or hereditary, carries a duty...

John Carroll (1735-1815) was the first Catholic bishop, not just in , but of the United States, for during the first 18 years of his...

Photo by Erica Marsland Huynh on Unsplash You know how they say the first Christmas after the death of a loved one is the hardest? Well,...

Composed in the wake of 9/11, “The Dream Isaiah Saw” quickly became a contemporary Christmas classic. The hymn’s powerful evocation of...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) We are living in an apostolic age where increasingly more people are rejecting the tenets of Catholicism and the...