Opinion

I was hoping we’d get a “settle in” moment with our Holy Father during the historic live conversation we would have at the National Catholic Youth Conference. I prayed for …

The church consistently teaches that all persons have both a fundamental right and a responsibility to have their voice heard in the public square

Brief classes meant there wasn’t much time to train children in spiritual supplication, but I did guide them through halting recitations of the “big three” prayers — the Our Father, …

Today, many take umbrage at the Catholic bishops’ advocacy on behalf of the irregular migrant, but in doing so, we stand in a proud moral tradition.

A reflection on departed loved ones

“Dilexi Te” manifests both Pope Leo’s recognition that we need to grow in unity and subtly illustrates a means to bring such unity to a fractured church.

In the church, we do not live or die on our individual faith alone. We are united with one another, in Christ, and we can cling to one another’s faith …

It is tempting to make the problem of evil into an intellectual puzzle, trying to fit jagged pieces together into a pleasing whole.

A common complaint of late among the Vaticanisti has been that, so far, Pope Leo XIV has had a rather “boring” pontificate. Compared to the early days of the Francis …

“I forgive him.” We heard those words Sunday from Erika Kirk, spoken about the young man who had murdered her husband less than two weeks before, and her message immediately …