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...

Next Monday, October 7th, marks the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on Israel by the terror group Hamas. It was this attack that started the Israel-Gaza War. Is there any issue in our public life more fraught than the Israel-Gaza War? I mean, for Catholics. We all know where faithful...

“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...

I’ve never been one for the “celebrity exorcist.” Never read a single book by Fr. Gabriele Amorth. Never watched a single YouTube video by Fr. Chad Ripperger. But Fr. Carlos Martins? I was hooked from Day One. I learned of him through his interview on LOOPcast. I’ve...

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,...

To me, October 31st is Halloween. No, not the gruesome Halloween. Not the celebration of the occult that our culture has increasingly leaned into since at least the 1990s. October 31st is, rather, the more innocent Halloween of my 1970s childhood. An opportunity for treats, not tricks. A fun...

President Trump has chosen Brian Burch, the head and co-founder of CatholicVote, to be U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. I cannot be more pleased. It is upsetting all the right people. According to the always sober, just-the-facts-ma’am, reporting of Catholic News Agency: “Brian...