Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, then Father Aquila, center, assists Saint Pope John Paul II with Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the...

I grew up in what you might call a genetically-Democratic family, but one in which partisan heterodoxy was not uncommon. My parents voted...

In the 1960s, Popes John XXIII and Paul VI initiated a new Vatican approach to the countries behind the iron curtain, the Ostpolitik....

Had I the resources, the one new book I’d give every delegate to the national political conventions meeting later this month is James...

CRACOW. With World Youth Day 2016 beginning here in less than three weeks, thoughts naturally turn to Pope St. John Paul II and his...

At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right – ascendant authoritarianisms throughout the world; lethal violence...

The term “elitist” has been bandied about so promiscuously in this election cycle that it’s become virtually content-free. Yet “elitist”...

So many innocent people have died. I think of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City and Washington D.C., the years of conflict in the Middle...

Baseball is by far the most Catholic of the sports on which we lavish such attention and passion. Because it’s played without a clock,...

Life, even Catholic life, is full of ambiguities, but some things either are or aren’t. It’s a ball or a strike. It’s a Toyota or a Ford....

“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, recently told an Italian journal that relations between the Vatican and the...

Cardinal Robert Sarah is one of the adornments of the Catholic Church, although it’s very unlikely that this man of faith, humor,...

God has a plan for your life that is unique, only you can fulfill it, and it will bring you true happiness.” This is the message I give...

The recent letter from the Department of Education on bathroom and locker room policy for students with gender confusion has generated a...

On May 13th, the US Department of Justice and the US Department of Education issued a joint directive to public school districts,...

If Catholics in the United States are going to be healers of our wounded culture, we’re going to have to learn to see the world through...

Two days after that circular firing-squad known as the “Republican primaries” came to a de facto conclusion on the banks of the Wabash,...

In Pope Benedict XVI’s Encyclical, Charity in Truth, he taught that: To love someone is to desire that person’s good and to take...

(Photo: Denver Catholic file photo) Two weeks ago I issued a statement saying that I would study Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, “...