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September 2015

September 16, 2015

The Road to Sainthood Infographic

When Pope Francis visits America this month, he’ll be canonizing a Franciscan friar named Father...

August 2015

August 30, 2015

Living in-between seed and shrub

by Joe McHugh In Memory of Thomas E. Porter 1927—2015 Tom Porter was a brash,...

August 21, 2015

Touching God’s Wilder Side

The wilder side of God refuses all our attempts at predictability and containment by Joe...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

Tweeting With God: Essential Text for RCIA and More

by Albert Little Tweeting with God was not what I expected. When it arrived in...

July 14, 2015

Catholicism Faces a Heavy Future, Full of Light

A challenging future means an exciting time to be Catholic by Kelley Cutler "You can...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

Beating Cancer, one Facebook Post at a Time

Hello, my name is Matt and I’m a social media addict. Before I even get...

June 19, 2015

“Sister Act” Remake? Tell Us About REAL Black Sisters!

by Shannen Dee Williams, PhD. When news of Disney’s plan to reboot its wildly successful...

June 18, 2015

My Second Christian Pilgrimage into Ramadan

By Joe McHugh Ramadan 2015 starts on June 18th and ends on July 17th, and,...

June 09, 2015

Jenner’s Gnosticism, the “Shadow Council,” and St. Irenaeus

By Very Rev. Robert Barron Two news items from last week put me in mind...

June 01, 2015

America Embraces Era of Religious Persecution

The persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in...

May 2015

May 14, 2015

Reactive Political Expediency Before a Papal Encyclical

By Russell Shaw Not long after St. John XXIII’s social encyclical Mater et Magistra made...

May 05, 2015

“The Avengers” and Friedrich Nietzsche

By Very Rev. Robert Barron C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their colleagues in the Inklings...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Finding Galilee, and Prophecy, on the Periphery with the Poor

by Zeger Polhuijs This Easter, I celebrated Holy Week with the Community of Sant’Egidio in...

April 20, 2015

A Lion of the American Church: Thoughts on the Passing of Cardinal George

By Very Rev. Robert Barron Cardinal Francis George, who died last week at the age...

April 20, 2015

Six Practical Ideas for Integrating Faith and Work

By Randy Hain How do we integrate our faith with our work? If you think...

April 13, 2015

What I Saw from the Rope Lines at Hillary’s FIRST Listening Tour

by Leticia Velasquez It was August 2000 and my brother, the environmentalist, casually mentioned that...

April 11, 2015

April 11, a Good Day to Smile in Honor of Gemma and Teresa!

by Colette M. Liddy Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Gemma Galgani, a woman...

April 01, 2015

Yes, the Devil is Real. Be Armed.

By Russell Shaw Is the devil real? Here is Msgr. Ronald Knox on that: “It...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

When the Love of God Hurts

By Cassandra Poppe My four year old little boy was slowly moving away from the...

March 23, 2015

Confession, The Hidden Sacrament Indeed

by Joyce Hart As a Director of Faith Formation, part of one's ministry includes preparing...

March 20, 2015

Fathers and Sons and the Father and the Son: A reflection on presence.

by Fabio Hurtado We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and...

March 19, 2015

Embracing Death: When we Can’t Face Life but Won’t Take the Cross

By Russell Shaw When religion and secularism butt heads on public policy—a regular occurrence these...

March 19, 2015

Kenneth Branagh’s Very Christian Cinderella

By Very Rev. Robert Barron Kenneth Branagh’s “Cinderella” is the most surprising Hollywood movie of...

March 15, 2015

What “Gifts” are Found in the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth?

by Denise Bossert A young virgin lowered her head in humility and gave her fiat...

March 09, 2015

The Poor on the Periphery, the Treasure of the Church

Visiting the Community of Sant’Egidio in Rome for a full week in February was the...

March 05, 2015

That Human Decency Stubbornly Persists is Hopeful

A man I know was walking his dog when a neighbor woman approached him and...

March 03, 2015

Look up from your phone; see someone; smile. That’s Communication.

By Colette M. Liddy The World Communications Day messages come out every January 24, the...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

A Message in Blood: ISIS and the Meaning of the Cross

By Very Rev. Robert Barron Last week, the attention of the world was riveted to...

February 25, 2015

A Medievalist Considers Inculturation in the Sacred Art

by Daniel Mitsui Early in 2010, a priest commissioned me to draw Saint Michael in...

February 23, 2015

Stephen Fry’s Cruel God, Job, and the Cross of Jesus

By Very Rev. Robert Barron The British writer, actor, and comedian Stephen Fry is featured...

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