Perspective

A call to prayer from a 9-year old who just wanted to know the answer to one question: ‘Did the girls who died go straight to heaven?...

Mosaic detail of Christ Pantocrator from the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) Anniversaries help us to...

Ascension by Francisco Camilo, c. 1651. Background added. (Photos: Public Domain/Unsplash) There are many reasons to regret the transfer...

(Photo: Lightstock, edited) In the twelve months leading up to next year’s American semiquincentennial, the tale will frequently be told...

Pentecost by Jean Restout, c. 1732. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) It is easy to be caught off guard by Pentecost. If I don’t...

(Photo: Lightstock) We are one human family, yet we are born as members of a particular nation. Christians are reborn as members of...

What Adam and Eve's Original Nakedness in the Garden of Eden Reveals About God’s Plan and True Intimacy, According to the Theology of the...

(Photo: Unsplash) I’m certainly no financial wizard. One look at my bank account will verify that (please send help?!). But with my...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the Solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical...

(Photo: Unsplash) During my childhood, communism, which Pope Leo XIII had condemned in the previous century, loomed as a global threat...

(Photo: Lightstock) My first job at a parish after graduating from college was a bit of a shock. Coming down the mountain, so to speak,...

(Photo: Unsplash) In its recent non-decision, St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic School v. Drummond , the U.S. Supreme Court let...