Every year we observe October as Respect Life Month, with the goal of spreading awareness of the importance of protecting life at every...

What does the Lord’s injunction to turn the other cheek in Matthew 5:39 require when it comes to ecumenical dialogue? The question...

For those of us who find it impossible to cast a vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump on November 8, this poem by Artur...

In the bull indiction for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Misericordiae Vultus, Pope Francis suggested various ways on how to live out this...

I have voted in every presidential election since 1972 and I have never experienced an election like this year’s. Both candidates are...

After Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium was torn down in the old hometown in 2002, I began describing the vast empty space left behind as “the...

You’d think presidential candidates would have learned that shooting from the lip in front of deep-pocket donors is asking for trouble....

Recent remarks by the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, have fueled speculation about a possible exchange of...

When you meet a fellow Catholic, the question oftentimes asked is, “What parish do you attend?” Over the past year, every parish in the...

Like Shelby Foote’s three-volume masterpiece, The Civil War: A Narrative, Francis Parkman’s seven-volume colossus, France and England in...

On Aug. 25, I had the joy of announcing that Pope Francis had named Father Jorge Rodriguez as the next auxiliary bishop for the...

QUÉBEC CITY. The exit signs along Autoroute 40 between the quondam capital of New France and Montréal are a veritable Litany of the...

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus...

In August 1997, I was in the oncologist office with my mother and her doctor. The doctor shared with us that my mother had cancer in her...

U.S. Catholics generally know little about the Church’s history in our country. But whether you’re trying to fill gaps in your knowledge...

Ever since the United Kingdom decided in June to leave the European Union, contending (and sometimes overlapping) explanations have been...

My local paper, the Washington Post , is best read for its sports and op-ed pages and its often-sensible editorials on foreign policy....

The following, instructive nugget comes from Times of London columnist Tim Montgomerie, writing in late July after a visit to a South...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, then Father Aquila, center, assists Saint Pope John Paul II with Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the...

I grew up in what you might call a genetically-Democratic family, but one in which partisan heterodoxy was not uncommon. My parents voted...