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Today’s first reading is from an explication of the academic program of the reconfigured Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute...

Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to any credible reports of misbehavior...

By the Gargantuan standards of the 21st-century National Football League, Gino Marchetti, who died this past April 29, was undersized at...

Thirty years ago last week, Poland began to self-liberate from communism through the first semi-free elections held behind the iron...

[On May 8, the Library of Congress and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars co-hosted a tribute to Dr. James H....

Your Eminence: I noted with interest your recent announcement of a “binding synodal process” during which the Church in Germany will...

When a pope is elected, the cardinals who have just chosen him make their way to the Hall of Benedictions atop the narthex of St. Peter’s...

Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s final report, there...

(Photo: Unsplash) 2018 was a bad year for Catholics. 2019 is almost certainly going to be worse. Good reason, then, to reflect on two...

(Photo by David Iliff / License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 / via Wikipedia) By peremptorily ordering the American bishops not to vote on local...

I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 “Armistice Day:” the armistice in question that which stopped the...

WARSAW. The temptation to ally the Church with a particular political party and its program is a perennial one, it seems. When that...

While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the highest levels of the Church,...

July 25 is the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae , Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical on the integrity of love and the appropriate means of...

When the great Tom Wolfe died on May 14 — he of the white suits, the spats, and the prose style as exuberant as his wardrobe — I, like...

(Photo provided) Almost a quarter-century ago, Father Jay Scott Newman, back in Rome to finish a graduate degree after his priestly...

The Church’s custom of reading virtually all of the Acts of the Apostles at daily Mass during the Easter season struck me as...

I wasn’t surprised by the result of Ireland’s May 25 referendum, which opened a path to legal abortion in the Emerald Isle by striking...

The defense of the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people. That was the case with the defenders...

The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1562. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) If there’s anything Catholics...