Robert Louis Wilken — radical Christian disciple, devoted husband and father, distinguished patristics scholar, elegant writer, serious baseball guy — died on June 6, a few months short of age 90.

The lessons we learn from suffering, loss, and disappointments are essential to what it means to be human.

As we thank God for the gift of the U.S., let us remind ourselves and each other that freedom is not license and is never free.

Untangling the Society of St. Pius X conundrum would likely benefit from a synodal solution, as Pope Leo XIV has offered.

Allowing the crucifix as an approved emblem on a headstone would give families of Catholic veterans a deeper sense of peace and comfort when they entrust their loved ones to the Lord’s care.

I celebrated and toasted the 200th anniversary of America’s independence in 1976 with friends and family who, just a few years earlier, had arrived with hearts brimming with joy in this land of promises and hopes. 

What can his fellow Catholics do for Jimmy Lai at the moment? We can hold him in prayer every day. We can urge the administration to continue to press for Jimmy’s release, and we can urge our representatives and senators to press the administration to keep pressing the Chinese regime.

This Father’s Day, let us remember the quiet heroes who are all around us. And let us commit ourselves to follow their example.