(Photo: Pixabay) Recently, Pope Francis met with a contingent of people who suffer from Huntington’s Disease, a rare genetic illness that...

Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral , had appeared in several languages, I was invited to speak to...

Perhaps it was being “overcome with Paschal joy” (as the Prefaces for Easter put it). Maybe it was my guardian angel whispering in my...

Image courtesy of Netflix I watched 13 Reasons Why , so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. I wanted to write about the show, but I wanted...

In the Church’s eternal wisdom, the feasts of Easter and Pentecost fall around the start of baseball season. Some might be tempted to...

The central task of the priest is “to bring God to men and women,” Pope Benedict XVI once told the priests of Rome. Priests are...

Madonna of the Streets by Roberto Ferruzzi. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons, edited) I have celebrated eight Mother’s Days so...

If you can find it in your attic, open your old, pre-Vatican II missal, and look at the Sundays between Easter and Pentecost, which are...

Did you find the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater? Are you tired of the...

OK, call me crazy. But I the only one who remembers, in my formative years, hearing repeatedly from the feminists that feminism was about...

Screenshot from "13 Reasons Why." © Netflix, 2017. Denver, Colo., Apr 21, 2017 / 05:23 pm ( CNA ).- It’s only been out for a few weeks,...

Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a noble endeavor. But such reconciliations...

I was dismayed to learn this past January that the Boy Scouts of America decided to end their practice of more than 100 years that...

In the history of the modern American civil rights movement, three iconic moments are typically cited. May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme...

Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890) – a theologian who came to prominence in the Victorian Age – can help us check the Church’s...

As we approach Holy Week, I am returning to a meditation I have been making in my heart on Jesus’ statement to Pilate, “I came into the...

When I first met Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., more than twenty years ago, I was struck by his boyish demeanor, his exquisite courtesy,...

Evelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, was something of a literary experiment for a modern master of English...

He was a man of silence and action. As we continue to walk through Lent, St. Joseph, the man who is revered as patron of the universal...

The question of “who owns the Church” has had a stormy history in Catholic America, although the terms of reference have changed...