Perspective

In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new Portuguese edition of my Letters to a Young Catholic was being prepared as a...

Universal Pictures Cillian Murphy, who beautifully evokes the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in  Christopher Nolan’s new film , wears,...

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological term for the mental stress or discomfort we feel when we are confronted with new information...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Specifically, healing podcasts. Because everybody needs healing....

Pope Benedict XVI often said that, in today’s skeptical and cynical world, the saints make a more persuasive case for the truth of...

Conservatives often receive a bad rap as negative reactionaries who continually complain about the state of society and the Church....

One of the worst of contemporary hymn-texts bids us to “Sing a new Church into being.” Not only does this injunction debase the noble...

(Photo: dole777 / Unsplash) By Mark R. Sanders LPC, CACIII Catholic Charities of Denver’s St. Raphael Counseling I have a love and hate...

It would not be quite accurate to describe the Working Document for the October 2023 Synod (its Instrumentum Laboris , or IL) as...

On first encountering Father Victor B. Galeone at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School in September 1965, my freshman classmates and I...

(Photo: Cytonn Photography / Unsplash) “The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” This joke has been...

We call St. Benedict of Nursia the father of monks, and his teaching on spiritual fatherhood drew me, in part, to become a Benedictine...