(Photo: Unsplash) 2018 was a bad year for Catholics. 2019 is almost certainly going to be worse. Good reason, then, to reflect on two...

Advent and Christmastide are full of journeys and pilgrimages: Mary goes to Judea to visit Elizabeth. Mary and Joseph journey to...

Christmas and family go together as we gather to celebrate one of the holiest feasts of the year and to honor each other with presents...

As I have confessed to you many times before, I do not consider myself a good pray-er. My prayer is often dry. Dry as in, “is anybody...

“Do not be afraid … I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior,...

Take a stand against the electronification of everything — give (real) books this Christmas. Some recommendations: Paul: A Biography ,...

Twenty years ago this month, I found myself seriously double-booked, so to speak. The editing of the first volume of my John Paul II...

I’ve been writing the Catholic Reader column for about a year and a half now and it’s been quite enjoyable sharing a great variety of...

Every Dec. 8, the Church observes the feast of the Immaculate Conception, and without fail, people think that this refers to Jesus’...

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) By peremptorily ordering the American bishops not to vote on local...

Catholics in the United States have been enriched in the last few of decades with a renaissance of biblical studies. The Denver Catholic...

“Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted” has long been one of my favorite hymns. Its tune, taken from the 16th century Genevan Psalter,...

Everyone expected the meeting of bishops this past week to be monumentally important, but no one expected the Vatican to intervene the...

As the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore on the weekend of Nov. 10-11, it seemed certain that, after a day of prayer, penance, and...

I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 “Armistice Day:” the armistice in question that which stopped the...

“For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come” (Hebrews 13:14). The author of the Letter to the Hebrews pointed...

Since ancient times, people have used the stars to navigate through the expanse of the sea or over unknown terrain.  As the bishops of...

After a month out of the country, working in Rome at Synod-2018 and helping mark the 40th anniversary of John Paul II’s election at...

ROME. While Synod-2018 was trying to grasp the polyhedron-like character of “synodality” and wrestling with the differences among sexual...

“Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ . . . having no hope and without God in the world; Once you were in darkness,...