In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm 22.3 of...

To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign – will...

As the calendar year begins we celebrate two important feasts, the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God and the Epiphany. With the first...

Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use the term. But it’s...

How could God, who exists outside of time, enter into time and take on a human body? The great theologian Fr. Romano Guardini said he...

Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first letter to the Christians...

We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of many that...

I can’t remember another Advent when the contrast was so stark. As Catholics we are preparing our hearts and homes to celebrate the...

It’s been a good reading year and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not “holiday”) shopping list: God or...

My husband and I recently celebrated our fourth anniversary of being received into the Catholic Church.  Our conversion is still somewhat...

As I write, just before Thanksgiving, it’s been over a month since Synod-2015 finished its work. Yet there is still no official...

We are about to begin the season of Advent, when we prepare to welcome Jesus with the joy of those who have been rescued from their sins....

(Photo: Unsplash) Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up in the...

JERUSALEM. Walking through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on my first visit here in fifteen years, I was powerfully...

(Photo by Andrew Wright/Denver Catholic) In a few short weeks, we will celebrate the beginning of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, which has...

Several years ago, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based summer seminar on Catholic social...

TRIGGER WARNING: This column will speak well of Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and compare him favorably to...

TRIGGER WARNING: This column will speak well of Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and compare him favorably to...

ROME.  Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod-2015, something genuinely new in the life of the Church began, and it shouldn’t escape our...

ROME. During Synod-2015, I’ve been reading John Martin Robinson’s Cardinal Consalvi: 1757-1824 , a biography of Pope Pius VII’s secretary...