A little more than 48 hours after the devastation of 9/11, Bishop Thomas Daily of Brooklyn walked amid the rubble of ground zero, past twisted metal, overturned vehicles, and other debris, with a white face mask covering his mouth as protection against the fetid air from the ash still swirling about.
Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day.
It’s distressing to realize that so many parents — either enthralled by attention or afflicted with severe fears of “missing out” on something — are looking at their kids as useful content fodder.
The year 1966 was great for movies, and six decades later, the five Best Picture nominations at the Academy Awards the following year are still worth watching.
In honor of the national semiquincentennial, here are some novels that help tell the Catholic story in these U.S. through a fictional lens.
More than 60 years ago, Sister Ave Clark was drawn to the Amityville Dominican Sisters because of a love for God and acts of kindness.
Speyer is a charming city on the west bank of the Rhine River. Its splendid medieval core is dominated by a magnificent 11th-century cathedral, the resting place of German emperors for 300 years and one of Europe’s greatest expressions of Romanesque architecture. Speyer was erected as a diocese at some point in the fourth century, a local Catholic bishop being mentioned for the first time in written records in 346.
As a threshold matter, the common good is a non-negotiable aspect of the Church’s moral teaching, as one of the four pillars of Catholic social doctrine.
Baltimore (not Indianapolis) Colts split end Raymond Berry, who died on May 25 at age 93, is the embodiment of work ethic.
A devastating earthquake recently hit Colombia. Father Christopher O’Connor shares what it was like there.
