Opinion

Across the United States, a quiet yet present crisis is unfolding among young men. Researchers increasingly describe a phenomenon known as the “delayed launch” of adulthood. Many young men are …

In this continuing series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, the story now turns to the lower South and the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

There’s been no shortage of books authored profiling the first American pope, Leo XIV, since his May 8, 2025, election. But only one concludes with a 35-page, in-person interview with …

Sometimes we look to Scripture and ask, “Does anything here speak to my life today?”

What Pope Leo did do was to reiterate his heartfelt opposition to war and his equally fervent desire for peace. This is in the hallowed tradition of not just popes …

I’ll never forget the first time I saw him: the notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell. He was on trial for murdering babies born alive during abortion, and I was covering it.

“Pope Leo has modeled how to respond when an aggressor attacks unjustifiably. Both talking the talk and walking the walk is a rare combination in the world today.”

Because my Lent took a nosedive about two-thirds of the way through, I am still immersed in a project I undertook in order to get my spiritual groove back: Writing …

A spiritually sick society can quickly go into both spiritual and corporeal sepsis because its weakened immune system cannot effectively battle evil thoughts, destructive actions, mindless sputterings of rage.

I began to say that my favorite image of Christ was that of the devotion to Divine Mercy, revealed to Sister Faustina. Its iconographic message, though simple, was quite complete …