As Peter preached the first sermon on Pentecost, he could hardly have imagined that he was shaping a Catholicism—a new way of life in Christ for all people—that would become Roman. There was nothing Roman […]
The events of Holy Week conquered the deepest fear of mankind: death. Human beings have been trying to outrun death for as long as they have been alive, but only through Jesus Christ, crucified and […]
What is the difference between thinking and praying? Between dieting and fasting? Between spending and almsgiving? Each pair consists of an identical action: forming sentences, abstaining from food, or relinquishing money. The difference comes not […]
“Nothing so much presses man’s heart as love,” wrote St. Francis de Sales, whose feast day we celebrate today, in Treatise on the Love of God. “If a man know that he is beloved, be […]
In 2014, New York City firefighter Matthew Byrne, after years of suffering from substance abuse and depression following PTSD, took his own life. Matthew and I grew up in the same town and went to […]
My sophomore English teacher taught an invaluable writing lesson that has stayed with me: “Show, don’t tell.” In explicating texts, we should make our point directly without saying we are doing so. Rather than begin […]
Renowned worldwide for his radical poverty and profound humility, St. Francis of Assisi is among the most famous of God’s saints. It is no wonder, then, that, like his master Jesus of Nazareth, Francis has […]
The day before his elevation to the Sacred College of Cardinals was announced, Archbishop Francis George of Chicago, delivering an unprepared homily at a Saturday evening Mass, threw down a challenge to “liberal Catholicism.” He called it […]
What is the purpose of education? Is it, as Justice Sonya Sotomayor recently wrote in dissent of Mahmoud v. Taylor, “that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but […]
Remember when we heard about “tolerance” constantly? A few decades ago, tolerance was “in”—we were told to tolerate others’ opinions and actions, regardless of what they may be. Some even called tolerance a virtue. In […]
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