Christian” does point to a relationship between the old covenant and the new covenant, it fails to convey what that ...

Dorothy Day’s own post-conversion writings and actions might be enough to disqualify her from consideration for canonization ...

In the newest book-length interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, the beloved African prelate once again warns the West about ...

The National Catholic Register carried a story September 3 about Anglican cathedrals in the United Kingdom increasingly renting out their spaces for pop concerts and discos. Many justify the practice ...

Around 2020 I started writing satirical Catholic news. At first, it was just a personal writing exercise, a light project to sharpen my skills and maybe help cope with the craziness of that time. But ...

Ten years ago, as Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAID), I had a conversation with a friend about assisted suicide. After I sent him an article on the subject, he asked why someone ...

I dropped my youngest son off August 22 as a freshman at Rochester Institute of Technology. I couldn’t help reflecting that—almost to the day—49 years earlier I started as a freshman at St. Mary’s ...

The late Vincent Canby, chief arbiter of taste on matters of theater and cinema, who, from his lofty perch at The New York Times would regularly lay down the law and the prophets, must have cranked ...

The story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is usually told as a morality tale about lying: a warning that if we tell lies, no one will believe us when we are telling the truth. But the real lesson of the ...

“The high tide,” King Alfred cried. “The high tide and the turn!” This battle cry of Alfred the Great, as imagined by G.K. Chesterton in his epic poem The Ballad of the White Horse, came to mind when ...

It takes a very singular, and a very dark, moment in history to be grateful for encountering the Chestertonian proposal that it is better to believe in the wrong thing than in nothing at all. Those ...