Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who confirmed my father, was a pugnacious Irishman with a taste for shocking people via undiplomatic language.

Here are 11 suggestions of books to consider gifting that entertain, inform, and open new horizons of understanding.

That new configuration of religious and moral witness in Ukraine has shown its strength during more than three years of a brutal war.

On Dec. 7, 1965, Pope Paul solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, known by its Latin incipit (opening words) as “Dignitatis humanae.” The council thereby turbocharged the Catholic Church’s transformation into the world’s premier institutional defender of basic human rights.

As a Catholic missionary living in Williamsburg for four years, I often ask myself: What about the Church? Is the Church reaching these young people? If not, why not?

Being the president of the Jornada de Vida Cristiana youth movement in the Diocese of Brooklyn has been a huge part of my life.

The deterioration of our games is part and parcel of the deterioration of our culture. And as politics is downstream from culture, end-zone ridiculousness and similar self-aggrandizing debaucheries in other forms of entertainment have inevitably leaked into politics like a poison.

The All Saints’ Day proclamation of St. John Henry Newman as a Doctor of the Church was entirely welcome, if not without a certain irony.

Antisemitism is a malignancy in society. Throughout modern political history, rising antisemitism has been an unmistakable marker of cultural decay.

During the Rite of Ordination of Deacons, the newly vested deacon kneels before the bishop and receives the Book of the Gospels. With the Book of the Gospels in the hands of both, the bishop says to the deacon, “Receive the Gospel of Christ, whose herald you have become. Believe what you read, teach what you believe, and practice what you teach.”