(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...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) In Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises , there’s a dialog between two characters which goes like this: “’How did...

Lent calls us into a season of 40 days of fasting. It’s common for us to focus particularly on one edible attachment: chocolate, alcohol,...

Two years ago, Russian forces attempted a Hitlerian blitzkrieg in Ukraine. According to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, its goal was to...

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty...

The traditional Lenten practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are spiritual disciplines to be followed along the...

In our vocations crisis, we mostly focus on the priesthood and religious life, but a new dimension of this crisis falls fast upon us....

Within 24 hours last month, three mainstream Catholic websites ran stories describing Pope Francis’s meeting with the members and...

When I first met Yigal Carmon in November 1988, he was counter-terrorism adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, a position he...

(Photo: Denver Catholic Staff) January 28 kicks off Catholic Schools Week, timed to coincide with the patron of Catholic education’s...

Florida, that land fancied by Ponce de Leon as a bouquet of Paschal flowers, stands at the beginning of the Catholic story of the United...

My friend and colleague Carl Trueman recently observed that “the West is no longer a consortium of serious cultures.” To which I am...

(Photo: Josh Applegate / Unsplash) The notion of work-life balance receives considerable attention in our Western culture. It’s often...