Real readers read books all year round. But the convention of the “summer reading list” has become so thoroughly engrained in our culture...

The Office of Readings for the solemnity of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one of St. Augustine’s sermons “de Ascensione...

“Cat’s in the Cradle,” a 1970s hit song by Harry Chapin, begins with a father trying to find time for his newborn son: “There were planes...

His Holiness, Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Danilov Monastery 115191 Moscow RUSSIA Your Holiness: Grace and peace in our...

Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the papal household, has described the moment when the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles...

A June 2014 article in the  New England Journal of Medicine  (NEJM), written by researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and...

As that familiar parody of bad fiction has it, “it was a dark and stormy night” – March 21, 2000, to be precise – when I made my way from...

The first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and the jump sequence in the second episode of Band of Brothers are vivid reminders of the...

You may have never thought about it, but when the Holy Family was forced to flee into Egypt to escape Herod’s persecution, they...

“I have asked you. They have asked you, and she, my mother, has asked you. Will you refuse to do this for me, to take care of them, to...

It’s commencement season and tens of thousands of students are graduating from inner-city Catholic elementary schools. As decades of...

If you really want to be satisfied in life, ask God, “What are you calling me to do?” We often talk about “vocations” in the Catholic...

Prior to April 27’s canonization-doubleheader, I taped a lengthy interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, discussing both...

When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was...

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

It was early in our marriage that I, Matt, treated Mindy more like an object than as a helpmate—I was selfish.  My own mother sensed a...

Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna has long been a vocal supporter of Humanae Vitae’s teaching on the morally appropriate means of family...

The Gospel for this past Sunday began, “Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book.”...

One of the striking things about the Easter and post-Easter narratives in the New Testament is that they are largely about...

Pope Francis’s bold decisions to canonize Blessed John XXIII without the normal post-beatification miracle, and to link Good Pope John’s...