The second volume of my biography of St. John Paul II, The End and the Beginning , benefited immensely from the resources of Poland’s...

Genocide is a serious accusation. Many people have spoken of an ongoing persecution of Christians in the Middle East as genocide, a claim...

Next week, we will be celebrating the three holiest days of the liturgical year – the Sacred Triduum. As we prepare for these days, we...

The headline on the March 3 story at the CRUX website was certainly arresting — “Cardinal on charges of rigged synods: ‘There was no...

Seventy-five years ago last month, Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christian Probst were executed by guillotine at Munich’s...

My last review focused on Pope St. John Paul II—not only a great saint, but also a hero in the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe....

(Photo: Devin Justesen / Unsplash) As a young man, you are embarking on a great adventure, to find your place in the world....

(Photo: Unsplash) I belong to a prayer group on Facebook. People post their intentions, and the other members pray. It’s a great use of...

On Friday, March 2, something happened at the Colorado state capitol that hasn’t happened in over 100 years. Lawmakers in the state House...

About five years ago, a friend took her son with her when she went to a beauty shop to get her hair cut. The hairdresser was snipping...

In his June 1908 apostolic constitution, Sapienti Consilio , Pope Pius X decreed that, as of November 3 that year, the Catholic Church in...

(Photo: Pexels) When I was a kid, my favorite television show was The Partridge Family . Mostly because I was completely enamored of the...

When teaching college students a few years ago, I was shocked when I asked my students to tell me what they knew about Pope St. John Paul...

The scriptures of Lent in the Church’s daily liturgy invite two related reflections. The weeks immediately preceding Easter call us to...

(Photo: Unsplash) When we began Lent on Ash Wednesday, the Lord said to us, “return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and...

A few weeks before Ash Wednesday, an Associated Press squib with Lenten implications appeared in the Washington Post sports section: *...

Catholics understand sex as a mutual giving of self, which should express the love and fruitfulness of marriage. The mutual giving that...

Europe’s wholesale abandonment of its Christian faith is often explained as the inevitable by-product of modern social, economic, and...

We live in a culture that is very confused about love, particularly the sexual aspect of love. This confusion, combined with our fallen...

We celebrate Catholic Schools Week beginning January 28th. That day also marks the feast of the patron of Catholic schools, St. Thomas...