In 1936, Niepokalanow (the City of the Immaculate) was home to over 900 Franciscan friars and was the largest Catholic media operation in...

In 1989, as the Cold War entered the bottom of the ninth inning, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a memorable essay entitled...

I’ve been writing op-ed columns for the Catholic press since 1979. In its present form, “The Catholic Difference,” I began this column in...

“For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians,” Patriarch Louis Sako said after the July 19 noon deadline...

In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy with greater access to primary-source documents, something...

The post-Vatican II Lectionary for Mass has many fine features, one of which is the continuous reading of the Acts of the Apostles during...

As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June 1989, which eventually brought to power the first...

When I visited the Little Sisters of the Poor last month, I saw elderly men and women being treated with compassion, respect and charity...

As the world marked the silver anniversary of the Polish elections of June 1989, which eventually brought to power the first...

Hereditary monarchy is not exactly a growth industry in the 21st century. But those who imagine monarchy to be useless in a democratic...

Real readers read books all year round. But the convention of the “summer reading list” has become so thoroughly engrained in our culture...

The Office of Readings for the solemnity of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one of St. Augustine’s sermons “de Ascensione...

Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the papal household, has described the moment when the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles...

His Holiness, Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Danilov Monastery 115191 Moscow RUSSIA Your Holiness: Grace and peace in our...

As that familiar parody of bad fiction has it, “it was a dark and stormy night” – March 21, 2000, to be precise – when I made my way from...

You may have never thought about it, but when the Holy Family was forced to flee into Egypt to escape Herod’s persecution, they...

The first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and the jump sequence in the second episode of Band of Brothers are vivid reminders of the...

“I have asked you. They have asked you, and she, my mother, has asked you. Will you refuse to do this for me, to take care of them, to...

It’s commencement season and tens of thousands of students are graduating from inner-city Catholic elementary schools. As decades of...

If you really want to be satisfied in life, ask God, “What are you calling me to do?” We often talk about “vocations” in the Catholic...