Just last week, I had the privilege of spending four hours in the Sistine Chapel with my Word on Fire team. Toward the end of our...

Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’ (Praise be), was predictably covered in the press as an endorsement of climate...

The great evangelist Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said, “When we surrender to God, we get ourselves back ennobled and enriched” ( The...

More than 20 years ago, Dr. David Eddy, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association , described how his mother, though not...

This is a common scenario we see in our marriage coaching: the husband travels each week for his job while the wife is responsible for...

This column is adapted from a May 19 address that Archbishop Aquila delivered to catechists at the Leadership Appreciation Breakfast....

When we celebrate Pentecost this year, something will happen that people have been talking about since I was appointed Archbishop of...

“Without priests the Church would not be able to live that fundamental obedience which is at the very heart of her existence and her...

With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I would like to give thanks for mothers—to pay tribute to the many ways they teach us about God...

Anything worth doing requires risk. When Fathers Joseph Machebeuf and John Raverdy set out in 1860 for Colorado from Santa Fe, New Mexico...

Seven years ago, I was having the worst thoughts about the one I was supposed to love the most, Matt. We were headed for a weekend away...

“Wolf Hall,” the BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s novel about early Tudor England, began airing on PBS ’s “Masterpiece Theater” Easter...

When Christ rose from the dead and appeared to the disciples in his glorified body, he still had his wounds. In John’s Gospel we hear...

In the first reading for Monday, April 13, we hear that just after Peter and John were freed from jail, they prayed for deliverance from...

The first public trip St. John Paul II made outside of Rome after being shot in May 1981 was to the Shrine of Merciful Love in...

“Forever and ever and ever,” St. Teresa of Avila and her brother used to repeat to each other when they were little. For them, the saying...

The World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia this September should be more than a vast Catholic “gathering of the clans” around Pope...

Once a year we are supposed to see the doctor for a physical. He does some tests, draws some blood, and offers some advice on staying or...

Marriages are usually not ruined overnight. One or the other usually does not wake up one morning and say, “I am miserable in this...

The Church will celebrate the solemnity of St. Joseph , the second greatest saint after Mary, on March 19 and that has me thinking about...