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...

Photo by Mayur Gala via Unsplash This is not how things are supposed to be. That’s what comes to mind when I read news headlines these...

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

President Eisenhower in 1954. (Photo: Public Domain) Three days before Christmas 1952 and a month before his inauguration as the 34th...

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,...

TRIGGER WARNING: The next few sentences will upset some of you.  There is a case to be made that the United States lost the Vietnam War —...

On March 31, the bishops of France announced that they would petition the Holy See for permission to open a beatification cause for...

Cambridge historian Richard Rex has provocatively proposed that Catholicism today is embroiled in the third great crisis of its...

“Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of...

On April 11, 1963, John XXIII issued the encyclical Pacem in Terris , a powerful call for a world in which there were neither victims nor...

(Photo courtesy of Mary Beth Bonacci) I’ve been going through my Dad’s stuff. He lived with me for the past two years of his life, so his...

As the estimable Larry Chapp recently put it on his blog, Gaudium et Spes 22, “the deepest, most important, most contentious, most...

Happy Easter from Archbishop Aquila and from the whole Archdiocese of Denver! May the Lord fill you with peace, hope, and joy as we enter...

Once upon a time, before the Cuisinart of advanced educational thinking reduced history, geography, and civics to the tasteless gruel of...

During the Lenten season, an austere time of the desert, we keep our eyes fixed on Christ crucified. The focus is not on the “no” of...

“So, whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.” (2 Cor. 5:17) The Church...

In the first chapter of Profiles in Courage , John F. Kennedy quoted an exasperated Congressman, John Steven McGroarty, who wrote an...

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