(Photo: Unsplash For Lent 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving, and letting my...

Luther at the Diet of Worms by Anton von Werner, c. 1877. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Five hundred years have passed since...

The best Lent of my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles through ankle-twisting, cobblestoned city streets,...

We are about to begin Lent, the solemn season in which the Church unites herself to what the Catechism calls “the mystery of Jesus in the...

Some preliminaries: I quite agree that the United Nations is a sad, and sometimes malicious, joke. I understand that some people have...

SS BENEDETTO XVI - Aula Paolo VI- Udienza Generale - 08-02-2006 How does he spend his days in the Mater Ecclesiae monastery? What led him...

In April 2016, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, England, issued a pastoral letter on the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia (the Pope’s...

(Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox) The great deeds and discoveries of humanity always have one or several protagonists, but also...

Men and women are offended on brick wall background (Photo: Adobe Stock) Men and women clearly need each other and naturally gravitate...

(Photo: Unsplash) We live in a time of heroic witnesses who are giving their lives or suffering for the faith, but few people know it. As...

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...