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In the coming weeks, I will be joining Catholics and other pro-lifers in the 40 Days for Life campaign of prayer, fasting and witness....

“Education,” St. John Bosco often said, “is the great art of forming human beings.” And this is what happens every day across the...

During the entire liturgical year, there are only two saints whose birth the Church celebrates: John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin...

The confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the nationwide reaction to it are clear signs of the tensions simmering just below...

After living one week short of a year, Baby Charlie Gard passed on to eternal life on July 28th. His brief life and the court battle over...

Right in the middle of the Church’s celebration of the annual Fortnight for Freedom, good news came down from the U.S. Supreme Court in a...

Hundreds of people were drawn to the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on June 7 for the transfer of Julia Greeley’s mortal...

This week I have been thinking about Corpus Christi Sunday – the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ – which we will be celebrating...

Recently, Pope Francis met with a contingent of people who suffer from Huntington’s Disease, a rare genetic illness that causes movement,...

In the Church’s eternal wisdom, the feasts of Easter and Pentecost fall around the start of baseball season. Some might be tempted to...

The central task of the priest is “to bring God to men and women,” Pope Benedict XVI once told the priests of Rome. Priests are...

I was dismayed to learn this past January that the Boy Scouts of America decided to end their practice of more than 100 years that...

As we approach Holy Week, I am returning to a meditation I have been making in my heart on Jesus’ statement to Pilate, “I came into the...

He was a man of silence and action. As we continue to walk through Lent, St. Joseph, the man who is revered as patron of the universal...

Five-hundred years have passed since the Reformation rippled through the Church, causing painful division and spurring changes. Sadly,...

We are about to begin Lent, the solemn season in which the Church unites herself to what the Catechism calls “the mystery of Jesus in the...

We live in a time of heroic witnesses who are giving their lives or suffering for the faith, but few people know it. As Pope Francis...

With the recent inauguration of President Trump, his promises to “Make America Great Again” by protecting our country and generating jobs...

“The Word who found a dwelling in Mary’s womb comes to knock on the heart of every person” at Christmas, Pope St. John Paul II said....

I have voted in every presidential election since 1972 and I have never experienced an election like this year’s. Both candidates are...