On Dec. 6, the Church celebrated the patron saint of children, St. Nicholas (270 – 343 A.D.), bishop of Myra in Asia Minor (present day...

St. Therese of Lisieux detail, stained glass in St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Columbus, Ohio. (Photo: Nheyob / Wikimedia Commons CC...

“As we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.” These words from the liturgy perfectly summarize the spiritual...

Resist the twitterization of thought — give books for Christmas! The following titles will delight, instruct, edify (or all of the...

My late parents loved Cardinal George Pell, whom they knew for decades. So I found it a happy coincidence that, on November 12 (which...

Image by Lucía Ballester / CNA “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that...

Fifty years ago, on November 30, 1969, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with the universal implementation of the...

By Sister Marion Weinzapfel, csj Just why would a group composed of Denver’s Auxiliary Bishop Jorge H. Rodriguez, a parish priest, a...

In his new book, Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters (Sophia, 2019), John-Mark Miravalle relates how beauty combines the objective...

Thanksgiving, a uniquely American holiday, is quickly approaching. And while it is usually celebrated in non-religious ways, there is a...

November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the peaceful breach of the Berlin Wall — the symbolic high point of the Revolution of 1989,...

During the 2001 Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who’d suffered through a lot of synodal speechifying and...

November is a month when the Church asks us to pray for the dead. After celebrating those in heaven on Nov. 1, we pray for all the...

This week we observe Vocations Awareness Week, a time set aside to promote awareness of the call to the priesthood, diaconate and...

I once knew a Congregationalist minister — Yale Divinity School graduate, decorated World War II chaplain, veteran campaigner for...

I grew up hearing stories about life in the coal mines. They were delivered in my grandfather’s heavy Italian accent, and often concluded...

(Photo: Daniel Ibañez/CNA) ROME. Even the greatest enthusiasts of the present pontificate might not assert that Pope Francis has an...

Pope St. John XXIII sought to initiate a new period of optimistic engagement with the modern world by opening the Second Vatican Council...

By Todd Smith When we reach adulthood, we choose careers to support ourselves and our loved ones. Whether we become doctors, teachers, or...

(Photo: Adrian Dascal / Unsplash) Father Randy Dollins is the Vicar General and Vicar for Clergy for the Archdiocese of Denver. In this...