On January 13 the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops published a “preparatory document” for the 2018 Synod on Young People,...

On January 20, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to publish decrees acknowledging the “heroic virtues” of...

During the heyday of the Solidarity movement, a famous Polish slogan had it that, “For Poland to be Poland, 2 + 2 Must Always = 4”. It...

March for Life in Denver, Jan. 17, 2015. (Photo by Jeffrey Bruno/CC BY 2.0) With the recent inauguration of President Trump, his promises...

Speaking of public policy debates, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that, while everyone had a right to his opinion, no one had a...

Photo courtesy of Franciscan University of Steubenville Mary Beth Bonacci is a syndicated columnist based in Denver and the author of...

Image: By Haylli – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44225282 Mary Beth Bonacci is a syndicated...

(Photo courtesy of Paramount) I have long been an ardent fan of Martin Scorsese’s films. Taxi Driver , Raging Bull , Goodfellas , The...

In the introduction to Aggiornamento on the Hill of Janus: The American College in Rome, 1955-1979, Msgr. Stephen DiGiovanni warns...

2017 promises to be a challenging year for the Catholic Church. Thus some new year’s wishes: I wish Catholic progressives a calmer 2017...

The archbishop of Toronto is given to deprecating himself as “just a simple country cardinal.” In my experience, though, Cardinal Thomas...

Eucharistic Adoration in Christ the King Chapel of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary. (Photo by James Baca/Denver Catholic Register)...

“The Word who found a dwelling in Mary’s womb comes to knock on the heart of every person” at Christmas, Pope St. John Paul II said....

Bethlehem is a word that is often repeated at Christmas time. “And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to...

In October 2001 I had a long conversation with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. It was but weeks after 9/11; a new century and millennium were...

(Image courtesy of Province of Saint Joseph via Flickr ) Professor Anthony Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher...

“Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come,” Jesus counsels us in the Gospel reading for the First...

Take a stand against the electrification of reading and consider the following, in properly bound form, as gifts for those on your...

If the civil new year is an occasion to resolve to Do Better in the future, the liturgical new year, the real new year that begins at...

There’s no reason for a woman to have an abortion in Colorado, which has been legal for decades. And there’s no reason for anyone to take...