Perspective

“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...