When Jon Hassler died last spring at the age of 75, he was the last “Catholic novelist” in America. A long time ago a controversy raged in Catholic journals about whether a “Catholic novel” was ...

As the Catholic Church prepares to celebrate Pentecost, which marks the establishment of the Catholic Church, many new converts to the faith are marking their 50th day as Catholics. Some were drawn to ...

This year we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Catholic Worker movement and the 43rd anniversary of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. Just a few months after we opened our doors, Ammon Hennacy died ...

It has been one year. Annunciation has journeyed around the sun. We have traversed 584 million miles on a planet going 67,000 miles per hour. We have felt every bit of it. The g-force has been intense ...

“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). This line from St. Paul is reflected in the remarkable true story of the late Father Stuart Long, brought ...

This summer, on one of my early morning dog walks, I had an idea for a column about the Lord's Prayer. I remember it well because one of my best friends called that morning and I ran my initial ideas ...

Catholic institutions have gone out of their way to mimic the bureaucratic practices of the corporate world with little awareness of the philosophical and theological principles at stake. Pope ...