In early July, Vladimir Putin toured an Orthodox church in St. Petersburg, piously crossed himself, and lit a candle. Hours before,...

(Photo: Lightstock) On August 10, Pope Francis posted on X: “With sorrow I heard about the news of the shipwreck involving migrants in...

“Pope Francis has just given the Vatican his Ratzinger,” declared one July 2 headline; “Pope Francis Finds His Ratzinger,” announced...

File Photo by James Baca/Denver Catholic Register Thirty (thirty!) years ago, I experienced probably one of the greatest privileges of my...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) In today’s fast-paced and media driven world, where information bombards us from various sources such as TV,...

Photo by Anya Semenoff / Wellspring Catholic Academy of St. Bernadette By Mark R. Sanders LPC, CAS St. Raphael Counseling Football...

The latest self-inflicted blow to the Vatican’s China policy came in mid-July, when the Holy See announced that Pope Francis had...

Art has a story — beginning in prehistoric caves, reaching rational perfection in classical culture, soaring to heaven in the Middle...

Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century Prussian military theorist whose masterpiece, On War , is still studied today, is not typically...

(Photo: Pixabay) Westerplatte, a narrow peninsula framing the Bay of Gdańsk, was the scene of one of the first battles of World War II in...

We eat food in order to live. Jesus offered himself as the “bread of life” so that we could live a different kind of life. We have a hard...

In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new Portuguese edition of my Letters to a Young Catholic was being prepared as a...

Universal Pictures Cillian Murphy, who beautifully evokes the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in  Christopher Nolan’s new film , wears,...

(Photo: Getty Images) Cognitive dissonance is the psychological term for the mental stress or discomfort we feel when we are confronted...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately. Specifically, healing podcasts. Because everybody needs healing....

Pope Benedict XVI often said that, in today’s skeptical and cynical world, the saints make a more persuasive case for the truth of...

Conservatives often receive a bad rap as negative reactionaries who continually complain about the state of society and the Church....

One of the worst of contemporary hymn-texts bids us to “Sing a new Church into being.” Not only does this injunction debase the noble...

(Photo: dole777 / Unsplash) By Mark R. Sanders LPC, CACIII Catholic Charities of Denver’s St. Raphael Counseling I have a love and hate...

(Photo provided) It would not be quite accurate to describe the Working Document for the October 2023 Synod (its Instrumentum Laboris ,...