It didn’t get a lot of media coverage, but the priestly ordination of a married Catholic deacon on February 27, 2014, was an “historic occa...

It’s troubling (but not really surprising) to read that there is opposition in the old Curia to Pope Francis’ efforts to reform it. The...

The Ursuline Sisters of Cincinnati recently sponsored a symposium on women’s spirituality. About 150 women and one priest were present for ...

My curmudgeon friend has been on my case again, bombarding me with insights, complaints and suggestions about life, the Church, the US gove...

I’ve known him for years. He is a somewhat irritating, impatient curmudgeon whom I will not name in order to protect him and me. He has...

Not many people know about Peter Maurin, and still fewer would ever have heard of him were it not for Dorothy Day. She considered him the f...

When Elizabeth Seton began to talk about conversion to the Catholic Church, her family and friends objected that she was too refined to joi...