Advent, the beginning of a new liturgical year, begins this year on Sunday, November 29. On that day, the gospel readings concern death...

Below is an editorial by Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. that first appeared in the November, 2011 issue of The Homiletic and Pastoral Review....

The Declaration of Independence states: “that all men… are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are...

During the French Revolution, in 1793, the revolutionaries held a “Festival of Reason” in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and a decree was...

The late Fr. James Schall, S.J., often said “The modern world is nothing more than a gigantic effort to accomplish the transcendental...

In the last century, two novels that depicted a future totalitarian state appeared: Brave New World, in 1932, by Aldous Huxley, and 1984,...

“Totalitarianism grows in direct ratio and proportion to the decline of responsibility in the individual. This loss of personal morality...

Amidst all the recent concern about a pandemic and morose political conversation, it’s important that Catholics remain...

On March 1, Theresa Brey, a member of our all-volunteer staff, passed way. It’s difficult to express how important she was to this...

On the chapel wall of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary novitiate in Tucson, Arizona, are the photographs of three deceased...