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...

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ in the immigrant Hispanic community: We know that the outcome of the elections this week has raised...

Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film, A Man for All Seasons . And if it’s impossible to imagine such a picture on such a...

Photo by Robert Breuer – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Two weeks before Veterans Day, 88-year old World War II vet Curtis Dagley of...

On May 13, 1917, three children named Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta were grazing their family’s flock of sheep when the Virgin Mary...

Looking for some uplift after this tawdry election cycle? Some inspiration for tackling what lies ahead? A good way to enrich Advent?...

Alfred Emmanuel Smith (1873-1944) served as Governor of New York for four terms and earned the gratitude of all civilized people by...

Annie Oakley told Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, “anything you can do, I can do better.” According to Pia de Solenni, however, what...

Every year we observe October as Respect Life Month, with the goal of spreading awareness of the importance of protecting life at every...

What does the Lord’s injunction to turn the other cheek in Matthew 5:39 require when it comes to ecumenical dialogue? The question...

For those of us who find it impossible to cast a vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump on November 8, this poem by Artur...

In the bull indiction for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Misericordiae Vultus, Pope Francis suggested various ways on how to live out this...

I have voted in every presidential election since 1972 and I have never experienced an election like this year’s. Both candidates are...

After Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium was torn down in the old hometown in 2002, I began describing the vast empty space left behind as “the...

You’d think presidential candidates would have learned that shooting from the lip in front of deep-pocket donors is asking for trouble....

Recent remarks by the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, have fueled speculation about a possible exchange of...

When you meet a fellow Catholic, the question oftentimes asked is, “What parish do you attend?” Over the past year, every parish in the...

Like Shelby Foote’s three-volume masterpiece, The Civil War: A Narrative, Francis Parkman’s seven-volume colossus, France and England in...

On Aug. 25, I had the joy of announcing that Pope Francis had named Father Jorge Rodriguez as the next auxiliary bishop for the...