Perspective

I’m at 35,000 feet where, thanks to the miracle of modern satellite technology, I can do something I rarely do: watch daytime TV –...

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), rhetorically oversold as the “U.S. Church’s anti-poverty program” – Do no other such...

(Photo by André Escaleira, Jr.) My grandfather passed away when I was a young child. He was a firefighter and passed away in the line of...

“The most powerful experience at the National Eucharistic Congress was the Adoration, Father. Tens of thousands of people all turned...

The ecclesiastical propaganda machine created for last October’s Synod on Synodality for a Synodal Church is still grinding away, and...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that, as St. Paul wrote...

The casket is incensed during the Final Commendation of the funeral rite, offering the soul of the deceased to God before processing to...

Why aren’t we holy? God, in fact, wills that we become holy: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thes 4:3). So why...

Samuel Johnson, that great coiner of aphorisms, averred that “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” In...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) One of the fruits of Satan’s handiwork is a growing lack of civility between individuals and between entire groups...

By Derek Rusnak St. Raphael Counseling "Is anger a sin?" As a Catholic therapist at St. Raphael Counseling, a ministry of Catholic...

Last month, I had the honor of addressing the Civitas Dei Fellowship, which is sponsored by the Dominicans’ Thomistic Institute in...