This past June I was in the Munich area for four days, giving a public lecture on Evangelical Catholicism and doing a lot of media...

(Photo: Hanny Naibaho / Unsplash) In an effort to break my “look at the Facebook app every time I have a free minute” habit, I have been...

Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (...

As he was approaching his death, Jesus prayed that the Church would be one, that it would be unified. Looking back in history and at the...

Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute...

There are many people who have either left the Church or are currently considering leaving because of the scandals of recent decades. We...

The eminent sociologist Peter Rossi was a world-class punster whose scholarly accomplishments fed a sometimes-whimsical view of the human...

(Photo: Josh Applegate / Unsplash) On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”...From this...

Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to any credible reports of misbehavior...

“Do not be afraid.” It is not without reason that Jesus repeated this encouragement while he was alive and to those who saw him for the...

By the Gargantuan standards of the 21st-century National Football League, Gino Marchetti, who died this past April 29, was undersized at...

If you’re feeling a bit down about the future of Catholicism in the United States, ask yourself these questions: Why haven’t American...

Ecclesia semper reformanda: The Church must always be reformed. These words have hit home recently in the midst of a crisis of confidence...

Editors Note: In this column, Archbishop Aquila presents some excerpts from a talk he gave to the National Association of Catholic Family...

Bishop Robert Barron and others working hard to evangelize the “Nones” — young adults without religious conviction — tell us that a major...

In late June, I visited the concentration camp at Dachau, located in a wooded suburb a few miles from downtown Munich. The camp site...

There is, to be sure, a stress within the Biblical tradition that God is radically other: “Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God...

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory” (John 1:14). John describes Jesus as...

Catholic literacy has been in steady decline. A recent Pew poll revealed that only 50% of Catholics know that the Church teaches that...

If you have been following the recent political debates and the rulings being made by our courts, you will see that we seem to be at a...