There is a certain majesty and real beauty to be found in everyday life. If we have the eyes to see it, everything from rising in the morning, to going to work, to doing the […]

“What do you have that you did not receive?” (1 Corinthians 4:6). Western society has lived in open revolt against authority and tradition since the 1960s. Among the many causes and dispositions that underlie this […]

St. Louis, Missouri, Nov 27, 2025 / 11:00 am In 1621, lacking both the skills and the resources necessary to survive in the harsh territory of New England, European pilgrims encountered a miracle: a Native […]

Looking at the history of American Thanksgiving, we can identify three stages: Thanksgiving as a religious feast, as a family feast, and as a commercial feast. Thanksgiving began as a religious feast, a harvest gathering […]

1700 Years of Unity – “On Sunday, just ahead of his trip to Türkiye and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV wrote about the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, which is the reason for his […]

A grave violation of religious freedom continues in New Britain, Connecticut. In Arroyo-Castro v. Gasper the federal trial court denied a teacher’s First Amendment speech and religion claims after officials suspended her for insubordination, involuntarily placing her in an administrative position for having […]

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 […]

While Christopher Columbus was crossing the Atlantic Ocean and discovering the New World for Spain, Portuguese explorers were traveling the other way around the globe. That is how they discovered a trade route—and the ancient […]

Asher Kaufman, an 18-year-old from Connecticut, has embarked on a monumental ten-month journey across Africa to foster the growth of the Children’s Rosary movement. Leaving his home in September, Kaufman landed in Uganda on September […]