How is wine related to charity? Although we may think of consuming wine as something simply pleasant and enjoyable, Jesus used it as an...

A common misconception holds that early “modernity” invented the “individual”: the idea that everyone is a someone with a unique identity...

While history is always full of surprises, including happy ones, I must confess that I’m not full of Pentecostal joy as I consider the...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) Have you ever googled “percentage of people who dread the holidays”? It’s kind of fascinating. The numbers range,...

I first met Erika Bachiochi — then Erika Schubert — in July 1998, when she was my student in the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free...

The world does not think like God. If we were to plan how to stage the most important moment in history, it might involve a great...

ROME. A massive, 16-volume Lives of the Saints , first published between 1872 and 1877, informs me that, here in the Eternal City, the...

In the Garden of Eden, Satan convinced Adam and Eve to doubt God’s trustworthiness. He enticed them by telling them a lie, that they...

When I began working with some regularity in Rome 30 years ago, my elders and betters taught me that no one paid much attention to the...

This February will mark nine years since the historic renunciation of Pope Benedict XVI. Joseph Ratzinger would have gone down in history...

In July 2016, as we were sitting on the fantail of the Swiss sidewheeler Rhone while she chugged across Lake Geneva, my host pointed out...

Photo by Keith Allison on Wikicommons via Flickr So Aaron Rodgers is in trouble. Back in August, he was asked by reporters if he had...

Some suggestions for Christmas giving, in the form of books that amuse, inspire, educate or all-of-the-above: Prison Journal, Volume 3 –...

Without God, our sense of human dignity quickly erodes. Although we tend to equate civilization with an increase in wealth and comfort,...

This Thanksgiving, no one living in the United States should be anything but profoundly grateful for the privilege of living in this...

When I first learned that Pope Francis wanted to convoke a Synod on Synodality, I wondered how that would fit with what God the Father...

Photo courtesy of Father Sam Morehead via CNA The following is a brief excerpt from an op-ed penned by Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and...

Among those in the ultramundane pantheon of communist mega-monsters, Lev Davidovich Bronstein (better known by his Bolshevik nom de...

As we wrestle with how to hand on the faith, knowing that we are facing a general breakdown in its transmission, we can point to some...

As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops prepares to meet in Baltimore, misconceptions about a proposed conference statement...