Militia est vita nostra declared Job (at least in the Vulgate version of the Bible): “Our life is a constant battle.” In a similar vein, St. Augustine declared that the need for the virtue of […]
“Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the salvation of the World.” Relics of Our Lord’s Passion have always been dear to his followers. The True Cross, the actual wood on which Jesus […]
The First Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (1967), held two years after Pope St. Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops, was a synod of consequence that still influences the Church today through the canonical legislation, […]
I was saddened to learn of James Hitchcock’s death on July 14th at the age of 87. Like most people, my first encounter with the distinguished historian and author came through one of his books. […]
Of all nineteenth-century Catholic thinkers, John Henry Newman is the one who continues both to shape intellectual currents in modern Catholicism and offer an interesting dialogue partner to Protestants such as myself. While his patristic […]
Surprise and delight were the common responses to the announcement that this past week Pope Leo XIV approved the proposal of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints that St. John Henry Cardinal Newman be […]
In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in general. The final three of those “10 things” mentioned Catholics and Catholicism, […]
As Catholic Americans prepare to mark Independence Day, we naturally look not only to the well-known “founding fathers” such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but also to our Catholic forbears who were […]
When the Catholic Church commemorates the martyrdoms of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More every June 22nd, people tend to think that their deaths were just collateral damage in King Henry VIII’s spat with the […]
This Pentecost weekend, 19,000 pilgrims are making a three-day walk from Paris to reach Chartres Cathedral. Now organized by a French Catholic lay group called Notre Dame de Chrétienté (“Our Lady of Christendom”), the pilgrimage has expanded so much […]
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