Dante in the Underworld by George Augustus Wallis. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I was 24, I was asked at the last minute to substitute teach a religious education class at ...

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Thomas J. Craughwell. Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently Stealing Lincoln’s Body (Harvard University Press, 2007) and Saints Behaving Badly: the Cutthroats, ...

Bishop James Conley. Most Reverend James D. Conley, DD., STL, is the bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. Before his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to the see of Lincoln in September 2012, he served as ...

Woodward Fire – Burnt Trees and Ash, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. We are all familiar with Blessed John Paul II’s description of the Culture of Death in his 1995 encyclical, ...

Deborah Savage. Deborah Savage is Professor of Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is a recognized scholar of the work of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II and has written extensively on ...

There is a very good reason for every Catholic to know the great works of literature — and that is because the great works of literature help us to know ourselves. This is the reason that we should ...

Sometime early in 2020 — at different times for different people — we Americans learned about Covid: a disease unlike anything we had experienced. We heard expert predictions that the disease would ...

FamilyCookingaPhoto by Jimmy Dean on Unsplash.. A 15-year-old boy, asked to mow the lawn, said, “Why should I mow the lawn? It’s not my lawn.” Attitudes like these caused two-thirds of American ...

Up to now we have always regarded Lent as a time specially set aside for penance, a time for examining our consciences and doing penance for our sins. The struggle against sin was always made the ...

Image by 4222320 from Pixabay.. He well desires his own salvation who busily keeps within him the name of Jesus. Truly, I have no wonder that he who puts not the name of Jesus lastingly in his mind ...

On Complaining. Shortly after I converted to the Catholic Faith in 1986, I attended three retreats given by Fr. John Hardon, SJ, who was Mother Teresa’s spiritual director whenever she was in North ...