Adolescence is no time for substantive catechesis to stop. Every adult knows this, and yet the difficulties of adolescent catechesis drive many religious education program directors to frustration and compromise.

Most of Edith Stein's writing on women and women's vocation stems from the decade of her professional life between her conversion and her entrance into the Carmelite community at Cologne.

The life of our Lord and the practice of Catholics is so much prefigured in our Jewish origins.

Saints are not freaks or exceptions, they are the standard operating model for human beings.

Often in modern liturgy, the sense of reverence, of dignity, of awe, seems to have disappeared.

There is a natural law of human behaviour, a universal law of right and wrong action, carved on the human heart.

The Shroud of Turin is generally thought to be a remarkable medieval artifact. But not so fast.

As society justifies personal moral disorders, it threatens its own survival.

After chasing the woman from his room, Thomas Aquinas returned to his cell,"dropped the firebrand into the fire; and sat down on that seat of sedentary scholarship,"that chair of philosophy, that secret throne of contemplation, from which he never rose again.

The son of Lithuanian immigrants, Edward Krauciunas grew up in the Back of the Yards section of Chicago, which was well known for it knockdown-dragout toughness.