That is, what we ought to do is based on what we are. “Thou shalt not kill,” for instance, is based on the real value of human life and the need to preserve it. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” is ...

Literature: What every Catholic should know There is a very good reason for every Catholic to know the great works of literature — and that is because the great works of literature help us to know ...

The Church Opposes Science: The Myth of Catholic Irrationality Many people believe that faith and reason, or religion and science, are locked in an irreconcilable war of attrition against one another.

How We Are Made Pure Inside Life and every daily action come from a heart that has been healed and renewed.

The model New Evangelization bishop Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) and its Decree ...

Robert Bresson (1901-1999), acclaimed French film-maker, used Catholicism, his early calling as a painter, and his experiences as a prisoner of war to produce such cinematic masterpieces as Diary of a ...

When I gave a talk recently at the Institute of Catholic Culture on the subject of the Second Coming, I was I asked to describe what our resurrected bodies will be like.

On Complaining Shortly after I converted to the Catholic Faith in 1986, I attended three retreats given by Fr. John Hardon, SJ, who was Mother Teresa’s spiritual director whenever she was in North ...

Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. St. Thomas More is widely known as “a man for all seasons,” but he is best known for the final season of his life. A ...

The Church played a central if not exclusive role in the establishment and encouragement of the university.

Enduring Faith Amid Horror: The Priests of Dachau At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945.

Believing in the Light and Life of Christ Jesus comes and goes; he makes his presence felt and then hides in silence as if he were not there.