Given everything else going on these days, it may seem strange that a 129-year-old encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, founding father of modern...

CRACOW. Thanks to the pandemic, it’s been two years since I was last in Cracow, where for three decades I’ve done extensive research and...

In an article first posted at Commonweal and republished on July 7 in La Croix International , Professor John Thiel of Fairfield...

Let me begin by defining my location in the Liturgy Wars. I am a Novus Ordo man. I don’t agree that the Roman Missal promulgated by...

Pope Francis’s tendency to use colorful expressions and abrasive adjectives in commenting on ideas, habits, and practices of which he...

(Photo: Kamil Szumotalski / Unsplash) Well, you all keep me on my toes. Last month, I wrote a column about sin and culpability, using...

Liberation from lockdowns and quarantines ought not be liberation from serious reading, opportunities for which being one of the few...

Jesus counseled the disciples to enter “through the narrow gate,” since the road that leads to destruction is broad and “those who enter...

At 1 p.m. EDT on June 18, it was announced that three-quarters of the U.S. bishops had voted to develop a statement on the eucharistic...

(Photo: Simeon Muller / Unsplash) I love my hair stylist. She’s a devoted Christian. So, when I see her, we tend to have much deeper...

The concept of the “collegiality” of bishops has been sharply contested since the Second Vatican Council debated it in 1962, 1963, and...

How would you know if you were being brainwashed? When something plainly false — contrary to common sense and right reason — is so...

Fifteen months ago, it looked as if Cardinal George Pell might spend his 80th birthday in prison. A malicious trolling expedition by the...

The Year of St. Joseph points us to Jesus’ adoptive father, Joseph, as the essential model for fathers. Joseph not only manifests genuine...

It was a two-week whirlwind that changed my life forever, that first visit of mine to Poland in June 1991. Looking back on it, I’m...

You don’t have to be a doom and gloomer to see that things are unravelling very quickly in our country. Two metrics are enough to prove...

It’s now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but for native Baltimoreans of a certain...

By Deacon Joe Donohoe Director of Deacon Personnel for the Archdiocese of Denver The Archdiocese of Denver has just released a Deacon...

One of the adornments of American Catholicism turned 90 on May 21: Dr.  Paul R. McHugh, longtime head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and...

With the latest edition of the Denver Catholic magazine , I am completing the telling of our story as children of God the Father. You...