On November 24, 2013, Pope Francis displayed St. Peter’s bones publicly for the first time. This momentous occasion culminated the...

(Photo: Pixabay) Two high profile suicides in four days. Awful. In the wake of the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, my...

The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during the Easter season struck me as...

With hundreds of bishops coming to the Vatican in October 2001 for a Synod, I decided to spend that month in Rome conducting interviews...

I wasn’t surprised by the result of Ireland’s May 25 referendum, which opened a path to legal abortion in the Emerald Isle by striking...

“You are anxious and troubled about many things, but only one thing is necessary.” We recognize Jesus’ response to the busy Martha in...

(Photo: Pixabay) Did you know that we see hundreds if not thousands of advertisements a day? In fact, the consensus among marketing...

The bizarre comment and the weird gesture have not, until recently, been associated with high-ranking churchmen. Both, alas, were on...

A chapter in a remarkable American and Catholic life will close on June 6, when Abbot Thomas Frerking, OSB, concludes more than two...

(Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Happy Humanae Vitae 50th Anniversary! I don’t know about you, but for me it’s been a...

If someone asked you if you could prove that God exists, what would you say? What would you have to draw upon to answer this question —...

You’ve probably never heard of the Waupoos Family Farm. I hadn’t either, until I met some folks involved in it during a recent visit to...

Pentecost by Jean Restout, c. 1732. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) The Apostles, cowering in fear, locked in the Upper Room,...

DENVER, CO - MAY 13: Fr. Francesco Basso and Fr. Daniel Eusterman process down the aisle after their ordination to the priesthood at the...

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Romans 12:2). People tell me pretty regularly that...

In a recent interview, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, suggested that certain critics of a deal between the...

(Photo courtesy of 'Alfie's Army'/CNA) The moment you first see a child on the ultrasound monitor at the doctor’s office is truly...

When I first visited Lviv, the principal city of western Ukraine, in 2002, the transportation from plane to airport terminal was an old...

With the exception of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every creation of new cardinals since Pope Pius XII...

I recently visited the Denver Art Museum to see the Degas: A Passion for Perfection exhibit, which runs until May 20th. My kindergartener...