In his new book, Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters (Sophia, 2019), John-Mark Miravalle relates how beauty combines the objective...

Thanksgiving, a uniquely American holiday, is quickly approaching. And while it is usually celebrated in non-religious ways, there is a...

November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the peaceful breach of the Berlin Wall — the symbolic high point of the Revolution of 1989,...

During the 2001 Synod of Bishops, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, who’d suffered through a lot of synodal speechifying and...

November is a month when the Church asks us to pray for the dead. After celebrating those in heaven on Nov. 1, we pray for all the...

This week we observe Vocations Awareness Week, a time set aside to promote awareness of the call to the priesthood, diaconate and...

I once knew a Congregationalist minister — Yale Divinity School graduate, decorated World War II chaplain, veteran campaigner for...

I grew up hearing stories about life in the coal mines. They were delivered in my grandfather’s heavy Italian accent, and often concluded...

(Photo: Daniel Ibañez/CNA) ROME. Even the greatest enthusiasts of the present pontificate might not assert that Pope Francis has an...

Pope St. John XXIII sought to initiate a new period of optimistic engagement with the modern world by opening the Second Vatican Council...

By Todd Smith When we reach adulthood, we choose careers to support ourselves and our loved ones. Whether we become doctors, teachers, or...

(Photo: Adrian Dascal / Unsplash) Father Randy Dollins is the Vicar General and Vicar for Clergy for the Archdiocese of Denver. In this...

By Father Ángel Pérez-López, PhD, STL The word “Halloween” is a contraction of the expression “all hallows’ eve” or “all saints’ eve.” It...

Dear Brothers and Sisters, We must face the past and learn from it, and we must know if our children are safe today. Thanks to our...

ROME. With his liturgical memorial (October 11) falling on the fourth full day of the Special Synod for Amazonia, which sometimes seems...

One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and a high...

Botham Jean's younger brother Brandt Jean hugs former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger after delivering his impact statement to her in...

Bl. John Henry Newman (1801-90) will be canonized on Oct. 13 and surely will be named a Doctor of the Church at some point in the future....

Some people in our pews today can remember the time when abortion was not legal. But the rest of you who are filling the seats in our...

The United States has well over 200 Catholic colleges and universities. Only a fraction of them, however, conform to St. John Paul’s...