“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,...

(Photo: Pixabay) I just returned from the Catholic Leadership Conference — or, as I like to call it, “the best three days of the year.”...

On Sunday, Oct. 14, I had the privilege of celebrating the Eucharist in Greeley with over 500 catechists from the Neocatechumenal Way. As...

WARSAW. The temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party and its program is a perennial one, it seems. When that...

Pole that he was, Karol Wojtyla had a well-developed sense of historical irony. So from his present position in the Communion of Saints,...

As Catholics, we recognize Jesus’ Eucharistic presence to be the source and summit of our faith. Nonetheless, we can take His presence at...

Perspective is at least as important when reading the signs of the times as it is in landscape painting. And so, in this autumn of our...

In my travels throughout Colorado, I have experienced the goodness of the people of our state. We are a generous, welcoming and kind...

I never took a class from historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the faculty section of my college yearbook — “History is an...

(Photo: Pixabay) I wasn’t sure what name you are going by these days. “Angry,” “Disgusted,” “Demoralized,” “Fed Up,” “Devastated.” I...

While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the highest levels of the Church,...

“The waters have risen and severe storms are upon us,” St. John Chrysostom once preached. “But we do not fear drowning, for we stand...