In recent years, the arrival of AI has exploded as a topic of discussion, questions, excitement, and fear. Certainly, AI has been a subtle, largely unnoticed part of our lives for a long time. But in 2023, when the viral launch of the seductively user-friendly ChatGPT brought AI into our homes, schools, and offices, we were forced to confront the far more profound impacts of AI, for which ChatGPT plays only a minor part.

In continuing to discuss the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, the story now turns southward. From Maryland, founded as a haven for English Catholics, to the scattered communities of Virginia, the Carolinas, and what would become West Virginia, Catholic life developed under very different conditions.

As the final days of the academic year come into view, there is a familiar rhythm in our Catholic academies in Brooklyn and Queens.

As the Easter season comes to a conclusion, it might be worthwhile to reflect on the blessing of the number of people who were fully initiated into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil services on Holy Saturday.

I give thanks to God for these 25 years of priesthood and for every person who, through my ministry, has experienced the presence of God in their life.

Our Lady of the Skies Chapel serves travelers, airline employees, airport workers, security personnel, families, and all who seek a quiet place of prayer.

Here are just a few lessons I learned from going to Mass every day for a month.

Here in New York, we should try to grow as big as the March for Life in Washington, D.C., in order to reverse abortion laws.

Today, the church in Delaware — together with nine counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore — serves nearly a quarter million Catholics across 57 parishes, 18 missions, and 29 schools, a striking testament to a Catholic community that began generations earlier in log chapels and missionary outposts.