What will America become? The migration issue we confront today will greatly determine our future self-awareness and identity as a nation. It cannot be denied that we are a nation of immigrants. The current negative national narrative on migration has been influenced
In citing an ancient heresy, Pope Francis reminds us that God does care what we do with our bodies
In the Church we often speak of the workings of the Holy Spirit — of that prompting, that nudging, that can come from God alone in the midst of our everyday lives. But sometimes it can be a struggle to know what
About a quarter of the way into her monologue at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 28, and after a particularly crude joke, comedian Michelle Wolf stated, as an aside, "You should have done more research before you got me to
“They say” that former first lady Barbara Pierce Bush, who died in mid-April, smoked cigarettes. Well, she reached adulthood when smoking was common, indeed expected. She also represented many values that universally were revered in this country once upon a time, but
The Ascension shows us that our whole person is involved in salvation, which we live by loving others
When I was small, I was fascinated by a framed cross-stitch hanging on a wall in my parents’ home. I read the words over and over, even setting them to my own tune. “Cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow … for
“Peter is within.” That was the translation of an inscription scratched amid a host of ancient Christian hieroglyphics that pointed at the truth. Tradition long had held that St. Peter the Apostle, martyred in Rome, was buried there. Somewhere under the altar
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have given birth to a new prince, and the world is loving it.
Having a small child face an illness that doctors declare to be untreatable and ultimately fatal is nightmare enough for any parent. But the recent high-profile case of Alfie Evans is a reminder of the human capacity to create further harm in
I confess to a distracted moment at Mass the day after Barbara Bush died. I was at an afternoon Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, and Bill Clinton’s chief campaign strategist, Paul Begala, was in my peripheral vision. The first