“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but only one thing is necessary” (Lk 10:41-42). It would be easy to...

The Pandemic of 2020 has been hard on every Catholic. Eucharistic fasting for this length of time may remind us what 20th century heroes...

Sixty years ago, Father John Courtney Murray, SJ, published what I regard as the finest Catholic analysis of American democracy ever...

Our country has been through a lot this last year, as we all know. As many people have reacted against the founding and history of the...

The Good Samaritan by Rembrandt, c. 1633. (Photo: Public Domain) Most of us are familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan, which...

The image of the pre-conciliar Catholic Church in the United States as catechetically effective and politically potent can be hard to...

October 16, 2020 Dear brothers and sisters of the Archdiocese of Denver, Today, the Oversight Committee of the Independent...

(Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) The feeling of being in uncharted territory is one that many of us are experiencing these days. When...

By Deacon Rob Lanciotti Deacon Rob Lanciotti is a permanent deacon at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Fort Collins and holds a doctoral degree...

(Photo: Pexels) Well, it’s that time again. A national election is weeks away. So I guess it’s time for my quadrennial election column....

Earlier this fall, I was happy to be one of the initial signatories of “Liberty and Justice for All,” a call for national renewal drafted...

You’re probably hearing a lot about socialism recently. It’s become a hot button issue in our culture with major politicians advocating...

Every four years, Catholics face an intense dilemma in regard to the vote. There are ardently Catholic Democrats who wonder how their...

In January 2017, three days before Barack Obama left the White House, the New York Times published an opinion piece entitled “Reading the...

Great Britain’s parliamentary democracy has no constitutional text, but rather a “constitution” composed of centuries of legal traditions...

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Mother Loraine Marie Maguire, of the Little Sisters of the Poor, speaks to the media after aruments at the US...

Three U.S. Navy officers look out at me from a small, black-and-white snapshot, taken in Sasebo, Japan, on September 26, 1945: three and...

What is truly essential? This has become a pressing question in our country, especially as churches have faced many government...

The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 sent powerful shockwaves through American culture that reverberated deeply on...

A troubling trend is appearing as our country grapples with social unrest and the impact of the coronavirus, but it’s not a new trend....