Dorothy Day’s own post-conversion writings and actions might be enough to disqualify her from consideration for canonization ...

In the newest book-length interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, the beloved African prelate once again warns the West about ...

The late Vincent Canby, chief arbiter of taste on matters of theater and cinema, who, from his lofty perch at The New York Times would regularly lay down the law and the prophets, must have cranked ...

What then do we see around us? In large sectors of both clergy and laity (but it is the clergy who set the example), hardly is the word “world” pronounced when a gleam of ecstasy lights up the face of ...

In case anyone doesn’t think that surrogacy shamelessly commodifies children, exploits women, and is an utterly evil and dehumanizing process, they should pay attention to the story unfolding in Texas ...

Hammer and Sickle? Who under the age of 60 would even remember that barbaric symbol of Communism? Or the tens of millions it executed under its totalitarian death grip? Or the fact that several ...

What have St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI in common with G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc? What have they in common with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis? The answer is that they worked so ...

For a year and a half, I couldn’t listen to the radio. Every song was haunted by a memory. I’d hear the first few notes of a song like “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” by Pat Benatar and I’d be catapulted ...

I must admit, I’m not a big fan of women’s sports in general. I also don’t often watch sports on TV. I would rather play them. My favorite sports to play are tennis, squash, and basketball. Having ...

After so long a moral winter, imagine that God pulled a fast one on us, and that for one extraordinary moment last Thursday, he had given Blessed Fulton Sheen one last audience. As reward for his ...

It’s hard to tell if the popularity of certain ideas on Catholic podcasts and social media accounts signals the overall popularity of those ideas or just one small corner of the digital realm. I’d ...

Clownishness reached new depths several months ago in the Philippines. Not the Bozo kind, the Catholic kind. Cardinal Antonio Tagle took to the stage, donning a chorus line outfit, microphone in hand, ...