(Courtesy photo) On first encountering Father Victor B. Galeone at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School in September 1965, my freshman...

(Photo: Cytonn Photography / Unsplash) “The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” This joke has been...

We call St. Benedict of Nursia the father of monks, and his teaching on spiritual fatherhood drew me, in part, to become a Benedictine...

Few of the following qualify as “beach reading;” they all qualify as good reading. In graduate school, I was informed that there was no...

Photo by Jochen van Wylick via Unsplash Happy Father’s Day! You also may want to send some congratulations my way. For what may be the...

What do we see at Mass? Often enough, we encounter a mundane vision of outdated architecture, some empty pews, those who made it there...

When I dip into life’s memory bank for moments of unalloyed joy, the afternoon of October 9, 1966, quickly surfaces. On a brilliant...

A few days after Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s appointment as head of a Vatican “peace mission” to “help ease tensions in the conflict in...

Choice. It’s a word that expresses the religion of most Americans: one that centers on the self and the freedom to pursue one’s own...

In a recent article on the social doctrine of John Paul II in the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica, Father Fernando de la Iglesia...

Photo by Mayur Gala via Unsplash This is not how things are supposed to be. That’s what comes to mind when I read news headlines these...

(Photo: Hunters Race / Unsplash) There was a great divorce centuries ago between our faith life and our work life. They cited...

President Eisenhower in 1954. (Photo: Public Domain) Three days before Christmas 1952 and a month before his inauguration as the 34th...

Photo by Bethany Beck via Unsplash Like every other Catholic on the planet, I have been listening to Father Mike Schmitz’s amazing...

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world,...

TRIGGER WARNING: The next few sentences will upset some of you.  There is a case to be made that the United States lost the Vietnam War —...

On March 31, the bishops of France announced that they would petition the Holy See for permission to open a beatification cause for...

Cambridge historian Richard Rex has provocatively proposed that Catholicism today is embroiled in the third great crisis of its...

“Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of...

On April 11, 1963, John XXIII issued the encyclical Pacem in Terris , a powerful call for a world in which there were neither victims nor...