Perspective

Few of the following qualify as “beach reading;” they all qualify as good reading. In graduate school, I was informed that there was no...

Photo by Jochen van Wylick via Unsplash Happy Father’s Day! You also may want to send some congratulations my way. For what may be the...

What do we see at Mass? Often enough, we encounter a mundane vision of outdated architecture, some empty pews, those who made it there...

When I dip into life’s memory bank for moments of unalloyed joy, the afternoon of October 9, 1966, quickly surfaces. On a brilliant...

A few days after Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s appointment as head of a Vatican “peace mission” to “help ease tensions in the conflict in...

Choice. It’s a word that expresses the religion of most Americans: one that centers on the self and the freedom to pursue one’s own...

In a recent article on the social doctrine of John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia...

This is not how things are supposed to be. That’s what comes to mind when I read news headlines these days. Maybe you feel that way too,...

(Photo: Hunters Race / Unsplash) There was a great divorce centuries ago between our faith life and our work life. They cited...

Three days before Christmas 1952 and a month before his inauguration as the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower...

Photo by Bethany Beck via Unsplash Like every other Catholic on the planet, I have been listening to Father Mike Schmitz’s amazing...

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,...