The call for “social justice” is often employed today, not as a mandate for the application of Catholic principles and precepts in the public square, but as a slogan for those who wish to promote agendas that are frequently at…

I just recently returned to my home in Maryland after attending the Living the Catholic Faith Conference in Denver, CO where I had the great privilege of delivering an address called “Ten things every Catholic should know about Vatican II.”…

With February being “Catholic Press Month,” now is the perfect time to consider — and I mean soberly consider — the value of your local diocesan newspaper.

In the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Media of Social Communications, Inter…

I truly enjoy watching the Olympics. Having played and watched sports my whole life, it only makes sense, I suppose.

I’m the kind of guy who can flip through the television stations on a Saturday afternoon and land on a…

“Look for the bare necessities. The simple bare necessities. Forget about your worries and your strife…”

If you’re forty-five years of age or older, the catchy little tune that accompanies these playful lyrics is undoubtedly already playing in your head…

With news of the Holy Father’s plan to beatify Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman later this year, I thought I’d share a necessarily abbreviated look at the life of one of Catholicism’s most famous converts – a man who has been…

I’m currently overseeing a Harvesting the Fruit of Vatican II adult faith formation program in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and we’re just about finished with our examination of Sacrosanctum Concilium.

The question most commonly asked by participants…

What is the Catholic social justice principle known as “subsidiarity”?

If you’re an American and you’re unfamiliar with subsidiarity in this day and age in which the federal government is about the only segment of the economy that’s growing; you…

At the USCCB Fall General Assembly in Baltimore on November 17^th, the bishops received a preliminary briefing from researchers of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice on a report they commissioned in 2006 for insight into the clergy sex…

Just four days after removing the excommunication from the four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, Pope Benedict XVI offered insight regarding his motives during the General Audience of January 28^th.