I am in awe of Father William Slattery’s command of his subject. He is, after all, covering 1,600 years of Western civilization — a civilization that he argues was “born from the womb of Catholicism ...

In the second century, St. Irenaeus coined one of the most famous phrases in Christianity: “The glory of God is man, fully alive!” “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo, Public Domain, courtesy of ...

Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm ...

That is, what we ought to do is based on what we are. “Thou shalt not kill,” for instance, is based on the real value of human life and the need to preserve it. “Thou shalt not commit adultery” is ...

“There is nothing to be ashamed of in enjoying your food: there would be everything to be ashamed of if half the world made food the main interest of their lives and spent their time looking at ...

We like to think that we are really grown up when we can do our own thing. Jesus Christ challenges that assumption. Obedience to God is where the real power lies. It is a different kind of power: the ...

Walker Percy (1916–1990), American novelist whose works include “The Moviegoer” and “Love in the Ruins“, took as his subject “the dislocation of man in the modern age.” Percy was born in Birmingham, ...

At his birth the angels’ song mingled with the first bleating of the Lamb of God, promising peace to God’s friends. On the night before he died his own promise comforted his Apostles; when he had ...

Under the radar of other more pressing news, the story that Downton Abbey does not do God has also emerged. I stopped watching Downton a long time ago, but even then it was clear to me that the ...

When I gave a talk recently at the Institute of Catholic Culture on the subject of the Second Coming, I was I asked to describe what our resurrected bodies will be like. St. Paul writes to the ...

Fr. Hardon also oversaw the spiritual formation of the Missionaries of Charity for Mother Teresa. Father was a giant of a spiritual director. One thing he told us on ...

St. Thomas More is widely known as “a man for all seasons,” but he is best known for the final season of his life. A prominent government official when Henry VIII seized control over the church in ...