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...

(Photo by Andy Sanchez) By Daniel Rivas Seminarian for the Archdiocese of Denver St. John Vianney Theological Seminary “Jesus came home...

Temptations in a fallen city, memories of a beautiful woman, a poisoned chalice, the attacks of an envious priest, curses from a pagan...

A long time ago (but not in a galaxy far away), Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School had us reading six or seven books every summer. I...

(Photo: Lightstock) By Edgar Mares Evangelization Specialist Archdiocese of Denver Have you ever reflected on what freedom is? On its...

Rome is chaotic at its calmest, but three weeks working there in May suggested that the chaos has intensified to what may be...

(Photo by André Escaleira, Jr.) When I was 14, one of my closest friends passed away. I was confused and angry. I didn’t know what to...

“Dad, I’m sorry I haven’t been in better touch.” We were sitting on the porch late at night, two blocks from the beach, with the waves...

According to a source well-positioned to know, one of the behind-the-scenes dramas of the present pontificate involved Pope Francis’s...

Kykkos monastery, Cyprus. The Ladder of Divine Ascent with the good on the right and the bad on the left. (Photo: Adobe Stock) The 1960s...

By Mark Sanders St Raphael Counseling Did you know? Catholic Charities of Denver’s St. Raphael Counseling is the largest Catholic...

In the days before Pope Paul VI simplified the rituals surrounding the creation of new cardinals, men who had previously been informed...

Not long ago, I overheard a man say that he would take a break from Sunday Mass because Sundays were for the family, and Mass took too...

I want to be someone who matters. I want to make a difference, to do something great. “I have my mission.” This is how St. John Henry...

Just when you thought American public life couldn’t get more deranged, the Great Pine Tree Flag Indictment was handed down. I refer, of...

Forty-five years ago, the New York Times cast its gimlet eye over the first three days of Pope John Paul II’s return to his Polish...

(Photo: Unsplash) Do you ever wish you could hear directly from God a little more often? That he would chime in every once in a while...