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...

Ever since Thomas Kuhn popularized it with his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , the notion of a “paradigm shift” has...

(Photo: Pixabay) In recent years we have witnessed a growing tendency to promote suicide as a way of resolving end-stage suffering....

In the history of U.S. Catholic higher education since World War II, three seminal moments stand out: Msgr. John Tracy Ellis’s 1955...

Editor’s Note: This column is adapted from Archbishop Aquila’s remarks to the 2018 Celebrate Life March, which took place on January 13th...

This past December 18, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the department of external relations of the Russian Orthodox...

Last year, I spent a raucous New Year’s Eve in San Francisco, celebrating with some of my oldest and dearest friends against the backdrop...

In his monumental video series, Catholicism, Bishop Robert Barron took us on a guided tour of the major themes of the Catholic faith. He...

I won’t venture into classical Roman literature, which is not my forte, but I will say with assurance that the greatest modern Latin pun...

DENVER, CO - AUGUST 15: People gather to mark the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's visit to Denver, Colorado, for World Youth Day...

In the 1920s, when the United States had a quasi-Stalinist regime on its southern border, “Viva Cristo Rey!” was the defiant battle cry...

This was a tough year for losing friends. At one point, I got so tired of writing obituary columns that I wrote a kind of pre-obituary so...

What comes to mind when you think of the wise men presented by the Gospel of Matthew? You might think of three figures, we refer to as...