Back in the day, kiddie-Catholics learned that the Church had four “marks:” the Church is one, holy, catholic (as in “universal”), and...

Until the 1960s, Catholics worshipped ad orientem , with priest and congregation facing the East during Mass. Originally Christians...

On the night of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s funeral, Cardinal George Pell hosted a dinner in his apartment for a group of like-minded...

On Tuesday, January 3, when Cardinal George Pell and I went to pay our respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, lying in state in St....

Photo by Hu Chen on Unsplash A wonderful friend of ours from 40 Days for Life Croatia shared some thoughts recently. “When you look at...

(Photo: Wikipedia/François-Régis Salefran/CC BY-SA 4.0) It would be easy to start 2023 with a healthy dose of cynicism. As we start the...

(Photo: Unsplash) The beginning of my friendship with Bob Andrews, who died this past December 2, would probably astonish contemporary...

(Photo: Jüppsche / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0) I first met Joseph Ratzinger when I was 15 years old. No, not in person, but I was...

(Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) The Joseph Ratzinger I knew for 35 years — first as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine...

Amidst the sundry aggravations of contemporary life in these United States, few have such a cringe-inducing effect on me as a ubiquitous...

We count our years from the birth of Christ, and Christmas begins the year of the Lord 2023. The secular practice of making a resolution...

Now, on Christmas Day, the nine months have been fulfilled. What began on the day of Annunciation is made visible to the world in the...

A scene that’s sadly all too familiar to the United States, especially to Colorado, but quite foreign to idyllic Connecticut… Today we...

Several weeks ago, I was invited on short notice to help “fill a table” at a benefit dinner. The theme of the evening was the Roaring...

The Year of Our Lord 2023 will likely witness Catholic dramas we cannot predict now; that is the way of Providence. What we can know with...

My state witnessed an unmitigated tragedy on Nov. 19 when a gunman opened fire in a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and...

Last month’s midterm elections made it painfully clear that many pro-life advocates and politicians are at sea in the post-Roe v. Wade...

Memo to both newly elected members of Congress like J.D. Vance and incumbents like Josh Hawley and Kevin McCarthy: It’s time to stop...

Catholics are not winning any popularity contests. Not only do we still face fallout from the abuse crisis, we also now regularly hear...

I’ll confess to some exasperation when, during the 2016 campaign, Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence described himself as an...