Opinion

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 …

The powerful liturgical moment of washing feet imitates the example rooted in John 13, when, at the Last Supper Jesus washes his disciples’ feet.

As I held Archbishop Óscar Romero’s empty shoes in my trembling hands, I felt gravity heavier than their weight.

In families we are constantly called to rearrange our lives around the ones who need the most help.

During St. Patrick’s season, my thoughts turn to two other Irishmen on the road to sainthood.

Well, here we are in mid-March and mid-Lent and once again I am renewing my annual quest to memorize the Lorica of St. Patrick, in its fullness.