(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...

“Progress usually tends to be measured according to the criteria of science and technology. Nor from this point of view has the...

Perpetual Adoration Chapel at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Denver. (Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) This week I have been thinking...

Photographs can capture exceptional moments in an iconic way, making the original experience “present” emotionally as well as...

The evening of September 12, 2006, was, in a word, memorable. My wife and I were having dinner in Cracow with two of John Paul II’s...

(Photo: Pixabay) Recently, Pope Francis met with a contingent of people who suffer from Huntington’s Disease, a rare genetic illness that...

Ten years ago, after my meditation on Europe, The Cube and the Cathedral , had appeared in several languages, I was invited to speak to...

Perhaps it was being “overcome with Paschal joy” (as the Prefaces for Easter put it). Maybe it was my guardian angel whispering in my...

Image courtesy of Netflix I watched 13 Reasons Why , so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. I wanted to write about the show, but I wanted...

In the Church’s eternal wisdom, the feasts of Easter and Pentecost fall around the start of baseball season. Some might be tempted to...

The central task of the priest is “to bring God to men and women,” Pope Benedict XVI once told the priests of Rome. Priests are...

Madonna of the Streets by Roberto Ferruzzi. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons, edited) I have celebrated eight Mother’s Days so...

If you can find it in your attic, open your old, pre-Vatican II missal, and look at the Sundays between Easter and Pentecost, which are...

Did you find the Gorsuch hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee a depressing exercise in political theater? Are you tired of the...

OK, call me crazy. But I the only one who remembers, in my formative years, hearing repeatedly from the feminists that feminism was about...

Screenshot from "13 Reasons Why." © Netflix, 2017. Denver, Colo., Apr 21, 2017 / 05:23 pm ( CNA ).- It’s only been out for a few weeks,...

Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a noble endeavor. But such reconciliations...

I was dismayed to learn this past January that the Boy Scouts of America decided to end their practice of more than 100 years that...