When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning , was published in 2010, I thought I was finished with...

A student at Annunciation Catholic School in Denver. (Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) “Education,” St. John Bosco often said, “is the...

CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S....

Our standards have been lowered when it comes to intelligent discourse from our politicians. Therefore, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Sasse’s...

During the entire liturgical year, there are only two saints whose birth the Church celebrates: John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin...

When I was first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School,...

(Photo by Daniel Petty/Denver Catholic) To the DREAMERS of Colorado, I have been following closely the status of the Deferred Action for...

Some biblical scholars consider the Book of Deuteronomy to be a collection of sermons: catechetical homilies on the great theme of the...

In 2015, Sherry Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples became the Catholic book to read. Its simple but powerful message focused...

The scenes at the Cornucopia in The Hunger Games , both in the books and films, are some of most intensely violent parts of the story,...

Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the “culture of life”...

The confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the nationwide reaction to it are clear signs of the tensions simmering just below...

Detroit hasn’t gotten a lot of good press in recent decades as it’s struggled to cope with the myriad problems of rustbelt American...

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (photo: Wikimedia Commons) There’s much current debate about “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians...

After living one week short of a year, Baby Charlie Gard passed on to eternal life on July 28th. His brief life and the court battle over...

We’ve all heard the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction, right? Well, the truth is also apparently becoming even stranger–as...

It’s hard to recall another Christian book that has garnered so much attention in the media and has generated such vigorous discussion...

Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of the Catholic commentariat to...

It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a...

When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was Egyptian...