Colorado celebrates its own 150th anniversary this year, as the rest of the country marks 250 years since the founding of the United States. The two milestones bear an interesting connection. In the very year […]

Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts […]

The Wine Is Jesus’ Blood (Catholic Answers): Christ’s blood at the Last Supper could still be present in the chalice even if it didn’t yet have the status of being the ‘blood of the covenant,’ […]

Initial reactions to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, are necessarily brief, and most have tried to focus on one or two particular aspects of the encyclical. While it is helpful to consider a general […]

After the Spike is a frustrating book. It sounds the alarm on a real contemporary problem—the worldwide decline in birthrates that may be sending whole societies, even humanity itself, into a demographic death spiral. The […]

Pentecost is affectionately referred to as the “birthday of the Church”. There is a clue in the biblical account of the gathering in the Upper Room (Acts 1:12ff) that helps us in better understanding the […]