CNA Columns
Threefold Uniqueness from Day One
In September, we invited world-renowned painter Igor Babailov—the artist behind official paintings of Pope Benedict XVI and several world leaders—to... Read more
Make some desert in your Advent
It was just one of those days. I found myself sitting at my desk, overwhelmed with work and deadlines and... Read more
The roots of secularist coercion
When, several weeks ago, a Christian couple who own a bakery in Northern Ireland won a court ruling allowing them... Read more
God or Satan: making no room for evil in our world
Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher who lived four centuries before Christ, proposed the scientific theory of horror vacui. Based on... Read more
Book Review: Mind, Heart, & Soul
The Catholic Church in the United States has received staggering blows of late. The sinful and criminal behavior of a... Read more
Giving thanks for the Church
It’s a great time to be Catholic. I mean that sincerely… in the sense of Dickens’ opening lines in A... Read more
Thanksgiving Day invites a generous attitude of blessing
Some time ago, I came across a book entitled, “The Book of Irish Curses.” The book was intended to be... Read more
Bishops’ meeting in Baltimore left much work to be done
The November General Assembly of Bishops in Baltimore was a difficult but perhaps unavoidable experience for us to move forward... Read more
On current interest in the End Times
As I stood in line waiting to go to confession recently (yes, I still do that), a man who’d lately... Read more
Was Saint Paul a male chauvinist?
The reading from Paul to the Ephesians (5: 21-32) on the relationship between husbands and wives read at Sunday Mass... Read more
The suffering Church and the third day
On the Mediterranean coast, half way between modern Tel Aviv to the north and Haifa to the south, stand the... Read more
All Saints’ Day includes every man and women of goodwill
The month of November opens with the celebration of one of the richest feasts of the liturgical year, the Solemnity... Read more
Ghosts and life after death
One of the most famous figures of all English literature is the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Three times he appears... Read more
A mother's reflections on the youth synod
As a Catholic mother of five young people, I have been watching the Youth Synod with great interest and praying... Read more
A new model of catechumenal formation needs promotion
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is one of the most successful features of post-Vatican II liturgical renewal.... Read more
My gentle man, my good master
Make no mistake, my husband is a man’s man. For his “bachelor party” my siblings gave him a day at... Read more
The Kavanaugh hearings
As I think about the Senate hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the entire affair takes on... Read more
The canonization of Pope Paul VI
“Am I Hamlet or Don Quixote?” Pope Paul VI once asked that question about himself, and whatever his answer might... Read more
How Catholics are responding to the scandals
What do serious, practicing Catholics think about the sex abuse crisis? To find out, you can commission a public opinion... Read more
