Almost exactly 100 years ago, on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1918, a woman, a former slave, died in Denver. This apostle of...

These past few months, I expect many folks have found themselves resorting to the page and the lamp more often; may that literary trend...

Interracial people hands with stop racism phrase, fight against discrimination (Photo: Adobe Stock) “In the absence of faith, we govern...

There are two kinds of ignorance: the things I don’t know that nobody expects me to know, and the things I don’t know, but that I ought...

US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, holds her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June...

Priest during a wedding ceremony/nuptial mass (shallow DOF; color toned image) We’ve just survived the only time in living memory without...

A brief dip into Latin helps us understand how preconceptions can lead to biased judgments that falsify history — as they did when an...

Sacred Heart detail in the stained glass of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Lebanon, KY. (Photo: Nheyob/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)...

In his Life of St. Augustine , the 5th-century bishop Possidius tells us that the greatest of the Latin Doctors of the Church, knowing...

As a father of six, I know it’s hard to balance family priorities. Attending to everyone’s needs—emotionally, spirituality, materially,...

Photo by Josh Applegate via Unsplash Deacon Rob Lanciotti is a permanent deacon at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Fort Collins and holds a...

In mid-May, Chinese leader Xi Jinping unveiled a plan to bypass Hong Kong’s legislature and impose draconian new “national security” laws...

Featured image courtesy of St. Patrick’s Soho Facebook page I’d heard about Father Alexander Sherbrooke long before we met in June 2011;...

Featured image by Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Debates about celibacy have recently been in the forefront of conversations regarding the Church,...

A few months ago, the idea of a virtual graduation or a size-limited public Mass would have been foreign to high schoolers and...

Shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet met for the first time, Vice President Lyndon Johnson waxed enthusiastic about the best...

Well, I’m not in Poland. As you may recall, last winter I told you I was leading a pilgrimage to celebrate St. John Paul II’s 100th...

As the world and the Church mark the centenary of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II on May 18, a kaleidoscope of memories will shape my...

The Bible doesn’t keep secrets in terms of deliberately hiding details from us. Its meaning, however, comes alive for those with faith,...

It has been more than 50 days since Mass was celebrated publicly in the Archdiocese of Denver. The sacrifices made by both the laity and...