Today is Memorial Day. It’s altogether right and fitting to remember that we’re here today because hundreds of thousands of…

One of the most remarkable features of the Gospels is how Jesus effortlessly tosses off unforgettable sayings, the kinds of…

When the history of our times comes to be written, scholars won’t be able to ignore how much recent years…

young man and woman were walking in Paris’s Jardin des Plantes in the summer of 1901. And contemplating suicide. It…

Satan is real. . .and really dangerous. C.S. Lewis put it succinctly in the preface to The Screwtape Letters: There…

Early in his pontificate, Pope Francis often referred to Lord of the World, a 1907 novel by Fr. Robert Hugh…

In the heyday of Liberation Theology, the movement’s theorists often argued that it wasn’t enough for the Church to care…

recently had what’s called a revision total knee replacement (arthroplasty). In 2012, I’d had a partial knee replacement on the…

So, the Creator of the Universe has ridden into the Holy City on the foal of an ass to shouts…

discovered Shakespeare about the time I discovered movies. There was a TV show, “Saturday Showboat,” that presented what then were…