On September 5, 1977, “Voyager 1,” built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was launched from Cape Canaveral atop a Titan IIIE rocket....

While Lent offers us a clear path of conversion, turning away from the world, Easter invites us into God’s own life. In Lent, we seek to...

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) When the always well-written and often wrongheaded New Yorker dislikes ...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) As a Catholic business leader, you have likely heard in every homily at every Mass you have attended that you should...

(Photo: Pexels) A few years ago, I brought a friend to Mass with me. She grew up with no religious faith, but had fond childhood memories...

In Jesus of Nazareth – Holy Week , Pope Benedict XVI remarked on the striking parallel between the presence of the holy women at the...

“Destroy this temple, and I will rebuild it in three days.” This mysterious statement led, in part at least, to Christ’s death, brought...

In May 1993, the “World Russian People’s Council,” a “meeting place” for those “concerned about the present and future of Russia,” was...

One of my life’s great blessings has been to have known and worked with men and women whose books I first studied in college and graduate...

The Denver Catholic would like to announce it will not be partaking in April Fool’s Day. In other news, the Pope has decreed Denver...

(Photo: Denver Catholic file photo, colorized) Jesus has been raised up, lifted up for all to see, so that in seeing, we may believe....

(Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI)) What came first: Creation, or God’s covenants with the People of...

(Photo: Aleksandr Ledogorov / Unsplash) By Lisa Smith St. Raphael Counseling In today’s fast-paced world, anxiety has become a prevalent...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) Many a strategic plan ends up gathering dust on shelves or on the corner of a desk rather than being effectively...

Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to...

During Lent, we focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving in order to repent and turn our lives back to God. The 40 days of this holy...

In the course of an insightful essay on Vladimir Putin’s challenge to civilization, Italian historian Roberto de Mattei, observed that,...

I’m seeing a meme on social media which quotes Pope Francis as discouraging fasting, recommending people to “eat whatever you want” and...

His neighbors in 1940s Oklahoma would have found it hard to imagine the boy they knew as Stanley Francis Rother as a future martyr, and...

Dean Acheson, U.S. secretary of state from 1949 until 1953, is buried in Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery. When I read recently that...