Perspective

A frightening trend emerged when I was working in Catholic school administration. The acceleration of problems related to sexuality for...

To vary Oscar Wilde, the Church’s liturgical life often imitates art by being strikingly appropriate to a particular moment. That was...

Photo by Amor Santo via Cathopic Have you ever known someone who was facing a truly huge loss, and struggled with what to say to them? It...

March 13 ought to have been a happy day in Rome. But the mood in and around Vatican City before, during and after the 10th anniversary of...

We often repeat that the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. What happens when this source and summit has been...

In its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ( Lumen Gentium ), the Second Vatican Council firmly applied the brakes to “ultramontanism” —...

Pope Francis’s image of the Church as a “field hospital,” tending the wounded on today’s social and cultural battlefields, resonates with...

“He was hungry.” Luke tells us of Jesus’ struggle with the devil in the desert, during which he fasted for 40 days. At the end of it, as...

When they were working together some years ago at the Ukrainian Catholic University — the only Catholic institution of higher learning in...

St. Paul VI says the Mass versus populum at All Saints Parish (Rome) on March 7, 1965. By Father Felix P. Medina-Algaba Pastor of Queen...

Mr. Adam Lucas, who is “newly married with a baby on the way” ( mazel tov !) and “has a Master’s in Theology,” speaks for a depressing...

Leo G. Bonacci passed away on January 21, 2023. He was two months shy of his 100th birthday. There is so much I could say about my...