There are those who would not let facts get in the way of theory, and such was the English philosopher Herbert Spencer who promoted the "survival of the fittest."

In the 1960s and 1970s, a new kind of media called "television" entered homes everywhere as an immense expansion of access to information and entertainment.

Carlo Carretto (1910-1988), Italian writer, mystic, and member of the Little Brothers of Jesus, modeled himself upon desert contemplative Charles de Foucauld.

The selection of Saint Michael as our parish's patron in 1857 certainly was inspired.

Earlier this week, I made a visit to Our Lady Queen of the Clergy Retirement Home in Stamford, CT to interview Msgr. John Sanders, who played with Duke Ellington for five years and then became a Catholic priest.

On the ninth of October in 1845, Blessed John Henry Newman was received into the Catholic Church by the Passionist priest Blessed Dominica Barberi.

Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000), renowned British actor, converted to Catholicism after playing a priest in the 1954 film The Detective, aka Father Brown. 

As I knew Archbishop Vigano well during his service as papal representative in Washington, I feel obliged to speak about him, which I hope will help others consider his very, very serious claims thoughtfully.

For the sake of boys and the families they must eventually lead, we must open our hearts and quit attempting to thrust upon them an unnatural and uninspiring commitment to sexual indifference.

I was a student at the University of Washington in Seattle when I arrived in Washington, D.C., to work as an intern in 1983.