My grandmother died yesterday at the age of 96. There is no single person to whom I owe a greater debt for imparting to me my Catholic faith than her. I have explained why in numerous Facebook posts over the years and in a Catholic Herald piece commemorating the centennial of Our Lady of...

I am praying for Pope Francis who, according to a report published a few minutes before I began to type this column, remains in critical condition. As my Catholic Culture colleague Phil Lawler notes, it is the wisest and best thing we can do for the Pope. Not following “the very excitable...

Happy St. Jerome’s Day! Or maybe not so happy. News broke yesterday on the Catholic Bible Talk blog that a Catholic Edition of the New Revised Standard Version updated edition (NRSVue) has been approved by the USCCB. According to the Friendship Press YouTube channel, from which Catholic...

“What the heck did you guys feed Vance for breakfast?” That was my wife, texting me last Friday, the day of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. I was one of the 1,400 breakfast attendees who had the privilege of hearing a stellar speech by JD Vance, the first Catholic convert...

“Support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has dropped 14 points in the last 3 years, per Gallup.” So reports Bryan Metzger, a senior politics reporter for Business Insider. According to Gallup’s analysis of their own numbers: Ten years after the Supreme Court...

There are so many things to be said about the appointment of Cardinal McElroy to be the next Archbishop of Washington, DC that you could break those things down into different categories. There is, first, the politics category. That is, politics seems to be the sole motivation for the...

The College of Cardinals shocked the world by elevating to the papacy an American. Cardinal Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. Here are my initial thoughts, slightly more than a week out. First, searching for clues about his future by scouring his past, in old comments or Twitter history,...

I am grateful to OSV News for reporting on my concerns about the USCCB’s granting of an imprimatur to the New Revised Standard Version updated edition (NRSVue) Bible. I appreciate USCCB Scripture scholar Father Pablo Gadenz responding directly to my concerns. But I found his responses...

At 55 years old, I’m just young enough to have missed the 1960s. That makes Charlie Kirk’s the first high-profile political assassination of my lifetime. I can’t recall any others. Plenty of attempts but no actual assassinations. Unless you count John Lennon in 1980. But that...

What a difference a “vibe shift” makes. That was one of the thoughts that ran through my head when I heard about the transgender-identifying terrorist who murdered Catholic school children as they were worshiping at a Mass opening their school year in Minneapolis. Of course, that...