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August 2023

August 02, 2023

Restoring Christian Culture Brick by Brick

Recently, I met with seven other Catholics to discuss art and faith. We met in...

January 2022

January 24, 2022

Forgiveness Heals Us

Forgiveness helps us to mourn a loss in a healthy manner, and also leads us...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

Creating a Domestic Church

The domestic church cannot be overestimated. The Catholic Christian family has an outstanding calling to...

December 01, 2021

Choosing to Live a Virtuous Life

What can you do today to live your faith in simple ways?

October 2021

October 28, 2021

10 Best Audiobooks on Catholicism (2021)

With these digital audiobooks, Christians and Catholics can remain close to God’s teachings, ideas, and...

September 2021

September 29, 2021

Challenges of Recruiting Vocations in Africa Today

Survival of any organization—both religious and secular—depends on the recruitment of followers and prospective leaders.

September 09, 2021

The Sacrament of Matrimony Needs Urgent Pastoral Attention

Disintegration of marriage and the institution of family affect every fiber of society.

August 2021

August 04, 2021

Pastoral Zeal as Priestly Identity

By Father Lazar Arasu SDB The concept of priest is easily understood in relation to...

May 2020

May 05, 2020

Religion and Morality in Verdi’s ‘Otello’

by guest writer Gregory Moomjy As children, we all have formative experiences. Perhaps few rival...

June 2019

June 11, 2019

‘Walking In Grace’: Intimate Stories and Images Reveal the Journeys of Former Gang Members

Press Release In 1988, while gang life in Los Angeles ran rampant, a Jesuit priest...

August 2017

August 01, 2017

An Open Letter to Feminist Religious Sisters

We need you. We really need you. We’re young Catholic feminist women, and we’re lost.

July 2017

July 21, 2017

What Should Catholics Think of the “Alt-Right”?

Were it not for the 2016 presidential election, I would have thought “alt-right” was a...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

“Gay male looking for…..” More: A reflection on liberation

By Julian Alvarez Approaching the first anniversary of “marriage equality,” I’m impelled to look back at...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

On Virtuous Leadership: A Q&A with University of Mary’s Monsignor Shea

What is virtuous leadership? At the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND, leadership is about...

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 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 18, 2015

My Second Christian Pilgrimage into Ramadan

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

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...

March 2015

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 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...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

Western Volunteers Support the Kurds via The Lions of Rojava

by Max Lindenman If you want to help the Kurdish people and fight IS, the...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

Grandparenting: A Vocation of Gentle Catechesis

by Colette M. Liddy When my mother passed away, my brother John found a list...

September 2014

September 12, 2014

Hildegard’s Music and Light Accessible to All – UPDATED

By Megan Hoyt The work of great composers will stand through the course of time...