By Sept. 13, 1917, St. Francisco, St. Jacinta and their cousin Lucia could hardly get to the Cova da Iria, where Our Lady of Fatima, Portugal, appeared to them each month. More than 25,000 people had come to see them that day. We have no…

My wife and I begin our Confirmation class for St. Benedict’s Parish in Atchison, Kansas, by giving the students an overview of salvation history using a drawing. “And here,” I said last fall, pointing to the pit of flames on the white…

I spent a year reading Pope Francis, and it was the hardest year of my life. It wasn’t that Pope Francis is hard to read — he’s not. It is just that he was really hard to read in 2015–2016, if you knew you had to write a book…

Only the Church Believes What the Love Songs Say

We know how to follow the rules...but also how to skirt them.

I have a theory: God gave us cats to show us the stupid ways we act toward him, and God gave us dogs to demonstrate how he really wants us to treat him. My whole life long, I have been a cat person. I was heavily influenced by my…