If Saint Mariam Baouardy (1846-1878) had lived in the distant past rather than in the nineteenth century, it would be tempting to think that some of the stories told about her were fiction. Could all […]

Minnesota looks to people today as a bastion of hard-left, liberal “progressivism.” But Minnesota used to have one of the strongest state pro-life organizations and multiple Minnesota Congressmen–Republicans and Democrats (Jim Oberstar, the state’s longest-serving […]

After writing about mission and the call to holiness, I was asked to answer this question: “How did extraordinary ministers of holy communion become so ordinary? Did the Second Vatican Council call the laity to take up active […]

“Fornicator I ever was,” the fellow told the prison guards, “heretic, never.” The fellow was Andries Wouters, a parish priest in Gorkum (in the western part of The Netherlands), and a pretty rotten one. He […]

Amidst a presidential campaign in which many of our countrymen deplore the choices we face in November, let’s take a break, follow the counsel of Ecclesiastes 3:1 (“For everything there is a season…”), and turn […]

The Cardinal’s Christ-less Prayer – “This week Cardinal Blase Cupich chose not to mention the name of Jesus in his invocation for the Democratic convention. Evidently fearful of offending against inter-faith sensitivities, he addressed the ‘God of […]