The scenes at the Cornucopia in The Hunger Games , both in the books and films, are some of most intensely violent parts of the story,...

Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the “culture of life”...

The confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the nationwide reaction to it are clear signs of the tensions simmering just below...

Detroit hasn’t gotten a lot of good press in recent decades as it’s struggled to cope with the myriad problems of rustbelt American...

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (photo: Wikimedia Commons) There’s much current debate about “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians...

After living one week short of a year, Baby Charlie Gard passed on to eternal life on July 28th. His brief life and the court battle over...

We’ve all heard the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction, right? Well, the truth is also apparently becoming even stranger–as...

It’s hard to recall another Christian book that has garnered so much attention in the media and has generated such vigorous discussion...

Defending the indefensible is never pretty. Or so we’re reminded by recent attempts from the portside of the Catholic commentariat to...

It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a...

When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was Egyptian...

“Let it be known to you then that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.” Paul proclaims these words the...

(Photo: Denver Catholic Staff design) If your daughter has a subscription to Teen Vogue , I would strongly urge you to cancel it....

The claim that “the Cold War is over” and that the West needs a “new paradigm” for relations with Russia has become an antiphon in some...

(Photo: Pixabay) Vatican City, Jul 11, 2017 / 03:01 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- The norms regarding gluten and Communion hosts that went viral...

Sermon on the Mount by Cosimo Rosselli, c. 1481. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Asked to name books that gave me the greatest...

Image by Erick rumualdo bustos ortega – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28900742 A number of...

Right in the middle of the Church’s celebration of the annual Fortnight for Freedom, good news came down from the U.S. Supreme Court in a...

Msgr. Thomas A. Whelan, my pastor when I was growing up in Baltimore, was a striking character: Princeton friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald;...

Summer offers us leisure—time for family, travels, and reading. July also provides an opportunity to highlight the importance of Catholic...