During talks around the country in recent years, I’ve been asking Catholic audiences how many of those present know the date of their...

Time Magazine’s April 10 cover story raised a topic that is rarely discussed – how pornography is biologically and psychologically...

The announcement that Archbishop Christoph Pierre will succeed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States is...

At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver is calling Pope Francis’ recent letter on marriage and family “both relevant and important for our...

“Holiness is not for wimps, and the Cross isn’t negotiable, sweetheart. It’s a requirement,” the late Mother Angelica once told a caller...

In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed were known as “martyr-confessors.” It’s...

When the Second Vatican Council was putting the finishing touches on one of its key documents, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church...

“Christ my hope is arisen!” This line from the sequence sang at Easter Sunday Mass captures the heart of what happens in our redemption –...

Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and I had attended a few months ago. The...

(Photo: Unsplash) On September 24, 1949, Georgii Karpov, chairman of the agency that provided “liaison” to the Russian Orthodox Church...

You’ve got to have a good memory for mid-Sixties pop music to remember the Seekers, an Aussie quartet that once vied for the top of the...

This Lenten Season is going by quickly, and with Easter being so early this year, I want to wish all of you a very blessed Holy Week and...

Ever since then Maidan revolution of dignity erupted in Kyiv in November 2013, Russian propaganda has been pumped into the world in a...

The death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 – unexpected and, for many reasons, tragic – draws a curtain on the life and public...

(Photo: Alan Holdren/CNA) This past week Pope Francis visited Mexico. As I read his messages, it became clear to me that his insights...

The Monuments Men was a disappointing movie, but one of its most chilling scenes sticks in my mind as an analogue to the appalling...

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since my son, Stephen, and...

It is the Year of Mercy, and people are starving for God’s mercy, even if they don’t recognize it. I was pleasantly surprised to see...

The Iowa caucuses are in the rear-view mirror, the New Hampshire primary looms on the horizon, and by most media accounts, the leitmotif...