Archbishop Fulton Sheen Visited My Home When I Was a Kid. Here’s What I Remember...
Matthew Bunson
On Oct. 6, 1969, Bishop Fulton Sheen made the surprising announcement that he had resigned as the bishop of Rochester, New York, after three difficult years as shepherd over an unruly flock in a post he never truly wanted. He was 74 at the time, a year shy of the traditional retirement age for bishops. With his customary wit, he declared at the time of his resignation...

Pondering What Gloria Steinem Now Knows...

This Man Built a Gravity-Powered Trebuchet — and Broke the Sound Barrier...

‘It Would Seem That There’s No God’: The Third Objection to God’s Existence...
Chad Engelland
When St. Thomas Aquinas set out to prove God’s existence in his Summa Theologiae, he articulated two objections. The first was the problem of evil: How can there be an infinitely good God if there is evil in the world? He answers it by positing the principle of o felix culpa, O Happy Fault, demonstrated by salvation history; though God is all powerful, he permits evil in order to draw out of it a still greater good.

To Save a Catholic Church in Detroit, the Archdiocese Let It Go...
Matthew McDonald
Msgr. Chuck Kosanke had run out of options. He had been sent as pastor to a parish now known as the Basilica of Sainte Anne de Détroit in 2016 to try to save the twin-spire, brick-and-stone Gothic-Revival church built in 1886, which, after years of deferred maintenance, was in tough shape. He had experience with that sort of thing...

Pope Leo to Vatican Gathering: ‘What Kind of Humanity Do We Want to Build?’...

Catholic Insider Tip on Cooking For a Big Family: Get a 36-Inch Blackstone Griddle...

Another Tuesday Morning...
David Alexander
The headquarters of the US General Services Administration is located just two blocks west of the White House. It was another Tuesday morning, one that started out like any other day. At about nine or nine-thirty in the morning, I got a call from an old friend in New Jersey. Go turn on the TV, she said with urgency...

God Has Been Trying to Tell Us Something Since 9/11. If We Still Won’t Listen, the Next 25 Years Will Go Badly for Us...
Peter Wolfgang
The thing I remember the most is, oddly, the weather. September is usually the most beautiful month of the year in Connecticut. But that particular September 11th, twenty-five years ago today, the day radical Muslim terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, was one of the most beautiful days I had ever seen. Not a cloud in the sky. Perfect temperature. The was air was crisp, with a cool breeze that felt medicinal on my asthmatic lungs...

On 9/11, Priests, Firefighters and Other Heroes Ran — Toward the Burning Towers...
Tom Hoopes
The story of 9/11, to me, is more about the ordinary virtues of everyday Catholic heroes than it is about terrorism or anything else. Actually a coincidence put the National Catholic Register in an extremely strong position to cover September 11, 2001. And it changed my approach to the way I did my job. I first wrote for the National Catholic Register...

25 Years After 9/11: How Heroic Faith Inspired Conversion and Hope in Christ...

Pope Leo to New Bishops: Your Most Important Mission Is to ‘Remain with Jesus’...

NJ teen set on priesthood had vision of Virgin Mary before his tumor miraculously shrank...

What the Earliest Church Fathers Taught About Apostolic Succession...
Clement Harrold
Apostolic succession is the idea that Christ’s apostles appointed successor bishops who in turn appointed successor bishops of their own—all the way down to the present day. These successors to the apostles are responsible for both the governance of the Church and the preservation of the sacraments. A significant majority of the world’s Christians...

Why September 9 Is the Most Common Birthday...

The German Bishops’ Outcry; the US Bishops’ Silence...

Pope's France Visit to Draw over 1 Million People, with Stops in Paris, Lourdes and Metz, Says Bishops’ Conference...