Image by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash First of all, I want to thank you all for the tremendous outpouring of support we have received in...

There is no need to belabor the awfulness of the year of lockdowns, shutdowns, and other downers that began in mid-March 2020. Among the...

On February 25, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives could have addressed any number of pressing issues. The nation was in its 11th...

As the names Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, and John Chrysostom suggest, the middle centuries of the first millennium, the era of the...

I don’t know about you, but I find myself getting agitated pretty easily these days, often in ways that are not fitting for a believing...

According to the movie  Love Story , “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Typical Hollywood fluff, you might say. Yet the best...

We buried my Mom last month. In the summer of last year, I first drove her to her new memory care facility. My heart was breaking. She...

All lives are consequential, for every human being is an idea of God’s, and everyone is a someone for whom the Son of God, the second...

Once, an editor of The Times newspaper asked G.K. Chesterton, “What is wrong with the world?” Chesterton, the great master of common...

Ten years ago, I began a most extraordinary Lent by walking up the Aventine Hill to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on the first day of the...

When one is close to the events of history, it can be hard to have an objective perspective on their significance, but it does seem that...

Thirty years ago, on January 22, 1991, Pope John Paul II’s eighth encyclical,  Redemptoris Missio  (The Mission of the Redeemer), was...

In his encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia , Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to “rekindle” our sense of “Eucharistic amazement,”...

Below is the full transcript of Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila’s homily he gave during the Respect Life Mass, celebrated Jan. 23 at the...

The list of grave issues that must be addressed during a future papal interregnum, and by the cardinal-electors in a conclave, continues...

By Josh Evans Who should get the COVID-19 vaccine, and in what order? Does Catholic thinking have any wisdom to offer on this question?...

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free,...

In these tumultuous days, everyone is asking the question: ‘What is the truth?’ Based on how they answer that question, and given the...

A wretched year came to a sorrowful end when Father Maciej Zięba, OP, died in his native Wrocław, Poland, on December 31. The birthplace...

TOPSHOT - The Peace Monument memorial is seen in front of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Donald Trump's...