The critical importance of Catholic schools
Sunday begins the 40th Catholic Schools Week in the United States, focused this year on how Catholic schools strive to form students for “faith,...
The life, death, funeral and legacy of Pope Benedict
Normally the death and funeral of a successor of St. Peter takes place within the context of a major distraction. The routine shock that...
Christmas manna
In the middle of the Christmas Octave this year, on December 28, we will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death and birth into...
A particularly Eucharistic Advent
Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year. It is a fitting occasion to make resolutions to grow in the spiritual life, as...
Thinking ahead and preparing well
Throughout the month of November, the Church ponders the last things, and on All Souls Day, the Church not only prays for the faithful...
Repairing the relationship between priests and bishops
On October 19, the results of the National Survey of Catholic Priests were released by The Catholic Project and the Department of Sociology the...
People not pawns
Jesus told us that whatever we do or fail to do to the least of His brothers and sisters, He takes personally, and that...
Taking seriously attacks on churches and Pro-Life institutions
On September 6, the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI), a Washington D.C. based think tank dedicated to achieving broad acceptance of religious liberty as a...
Lessons from the conversion of Shia LaBeouf
On August 25, Bishop Robert Barron released a video interview with actor Shia LaBeouf, in which LaBeouf not only announced his conversion to the...
A post-pandemic time for Ecclesial assessment
On August 11, the Centers for Disease Control loosened most of its Covid-19 guidelines, and many other national, state and local governments, institutions and...
