Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of the Catholic commentariat to...

It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a...

When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was Egyptian...

“Let it be known to you then that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.” Paul proclaims these words the...

(Photo: Denver Catholic Staff design) If your daughter has a subscription to Teen Vogue , I would strongly urge you to cancel it....

The claim that “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for relations with Russia has become an antiphon in some...

(Photo: Pixabay) Vatican City, Jul 11, 2017 / 03:01 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- The norms regarding gluten and Communion hosts that went viral...

Sermon on the Mount by Cosimo Rosselli, c. 1481. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Asked to name books that gave me the greatest...

Image by Erick rumualdo bustos ortega – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28900742 A number of...

Right in the middle of the Church’s celebration of the annual Fortnight for Freedom, good news came down from the U.S. Supreme Court in a...

Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character: Princeton friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald;...

Summer offers us leisure—time for family, travels, and reading. July also provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of Catholic...

I recently met the good people of St. Benedict Elementary School in South Natick, Massachusetts, which offers classical Catholic...

In the Catholic world, it was a year of silence. Martin Scorsese fulfilled his longstanding dream to adapt Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence...

Hundreds of people were drawn to the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on June 7 for the transfer of Julia Greeley’s mortal...

Three or four times each month, Father X (as I’ll call him here) celebrates the noontime daily Mass I regularly attend. I’m grateful for...

(Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) We buried our child yesterday. A child I got to know only though the sound of a heartbeat in a...

(Photo: Pexels) “God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He...

Dr. Jared Staudt, PhD, serves as the catechetical formation specialist for the Office of Evangelization and Family Life Ministries. As...

Given the intellectual flimsiness of their work, it’s best to look for cultural causes to explain the “New Atheists”’ popularity. And...