I’ll confess to some exasperation when, during the 2016 campaign, Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence described himself as an...

Jesus and The Disciples Going To Emmaus by Gustave Doré, edited. (Photo: Public Domain) This past Summer, I celebrated the tenth...

Thanks to the Franco-Prussian War, the First Vatican Council was suspended in October 1870 and never reconvened. Before its unanticipated...

In my last column, I wrote about the Eucharist as the food we need to spiritually survive and flourish in our secular culture. Jesus is...

(Photo: Jill Dimond / Unsplash) Well, I still haven’t mastered the art of writing columns AHEAD of major Catholic feasts and observances....

The Eucharist is a great work of cooperation. We supply the matter — the bread and wine, which is not simply natural material, but the...

On the morning of October 17, 1978, the newly-elected Pope John Paul II concelebrated Mass with the College of Cardinals and pledged that...

(Photo: Jackson David / Unsplash) Have you ever encountered a situation where your response was…well, weird? Where you could see that you...

No one who has worked in Washington for more than four decades, as I have, can possibly imagine Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., as one of...

We attended a prayer vigil, and prayed the rosary at night. We hoped for good news, while also preparing ourselves for the worst. And, in...

Within this multiyear Eucharistic Revival, we should not only foster devotion to the sacrament we recognize as the source and summit of...

Let us stipulate that the terms “international community” and “rules-based international order” have often been reduced to meaningless...

For months, the clergy and faithful of the archdiocese have been discussing and praying about how we are called to live out our faith in...

Writing my new book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (Basic Books), afforded me the welcome opportunity to dig...

By Deacon Derrick Johnson Permanent Deacon at Assumption Parish in Welby In the summer of 2020, the world watched the collective...

Due its divisiveness, it can be tempting to avoid the topic of politics altogether within the Church and instead focus on the seemingly...

Sixty years after its solemn opening on October 11, 1962, is there anything new to be said about the Second Vatican Council? I think...

His Eminence, Mario Cardinal Grech General Secretary Synod of Bishops 00120 Vatican City Your Eminence: The “National Synthesis of the...

Americans have many reasons to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the few truly noble figures on the contemporary world stage....

On the 28th of August, we celebrated the feast day of the great St. Augustine, the anniversary of the day he died in the year 430 A.D....