Pentecost by Jean Restout, c. 1732. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) The Apostles, cowering in fear, locked in the Upper Room,...

DENVER, CO - MAY 13: Fr. Francesco Basso and Fr. Daniel Eusterman process down the aisle after their ordination to the priesthood at the...

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Romans 12:2). People tell me pretty regularly that...

In a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, suggested that certain critics of a deal between the...

(Photo courtesy of 'Alfie's Army'/CNA) The moment you first see a child on the ultrasound monitor at the doctor’s office is truly...

When I first visited Lviv, the principal city of western Ukraine, in 2002, the transportation from plane to airport terminal was an old...

With the exception of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every creation of new cardinals since Pope Pius XII...

I recently visited the Denver Art Museum to see the Degas: A Passion for Perfection exhibit, which runs until May 20th. My kindergartener...

I trust it won’t cause heartburn among the editors of Commonweal if I confess to having cheered at a recent article they posted, “Quit...

“Holiness is the most attractive face of the Church,” Pope Francis says in his new apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate . How true...

Maybe it’s just me, but I have this total love/hate relationship with social media. I’ll have a week where I spend far too much time on...

The defense of the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people. That was the case with the defenders...

(Photo: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr) So the Pope has a friend — a rather colorful friend — with whom he likes to...

On Easter Sunday, one of the possible Gospel readings described how Peter and John found the empty tomb. It also described the first...

The annals of sycophancy are, alas, replete with examples of churchmen toadying to political power. Here in the United States, we’ve seen...

Before he ascended into heaven, Jesus gave the apostles a mandate: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations … teaching them to...

The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1562. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) If there’s anything Catholics...

The second volume of my biography of St. John Paul II, The End and the Beginning , benefited immensely from the resources of Poland’s...

Genocide is a serious accusation. Many people have spoken of an ongoing persecution of Christians in the Middle East as genocide, a claim...

Next week, we will be celebrating the three holiest days of the liturgical year – the Sacred Triduum. As we prepare for these days, we...