Eighteenth-century British Jacobites wistfully toasted “the king over the water,” referring to exiled King James II, his successors, and...

Over the past few months, people have given me a lot of advice. “You’re doing a good job,” they’ll say “but here’s what the Church should...

November is the month in which the Church remembers the departed—those who have gone before us into the mystery of death, earnestly...

Last week at the annual Al Smith Dinner in New York City, Cardinal Timothy Dolan reminded Catholics of our obligation to the “uns” of...

Last week the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature was announced in Stockholm, Sweden.  The winner is Guan Moye, a Chinese author who uses the...

More than we realize, landscapes shape the contours of our souls. The plains of eastern Colorado condition us to understand the sheer...

A lot of people thought Frank Sheed was insane. Sheed was a well-educated lawyer, a well-trained theologian, and the owner of a...

When Marie Francis Martin was 10 years old, her father offered her painting lessons. Marie loved art and dreamed of painting beautiful...

At the age of 15, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman was given the gift of faith. Of that year, he writes: “a great change of thought...

Religious commentators often decry that public morality is dead—that secularism has rendered us a culture entirely devoid of moral values...

Last week I was talking with a friend about abortion.  My friend, who is not Catholic, has pro-abortion political positions, and I...

If you haven’t read Graham Greene’s “The Power and the Glory,” you should.  Like all of Greene’s work, the novel is compelling—and deeply...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, a broad, bipartisan coalition quickly formed to...

Today, throughout Italy people are celebrating. They’re lighting fireworks, holding feasts and gathering for parades. At the climax of...

“Ephphatha!” proclaimed the Lord—“Be opened!” We heard this proclamation in the Gospel this Sunday (Mk 7:34) as Jesus healed a man who...

Dan is a dear friend of mine.  He is a young man from here in Denver whose family I have known for years.  Dan has trisomy 21—Down...

This week began for me with joyous celebration. On Wednesday, July 18, I was installed as the fifth archbishop, and eighth bishop, of the...

In the flood of commentary surrounding the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I found but one reference to a related anniversary of considerable...

Thomas Merton is usually thought of as a liberal or progressive Catholic, which in many respects he was: he certainly tilted left...

A son of Poland is now Blessed John Paul II. What is Poland to do now? If a friend might offer a suggestion: the Church in Poland should...