There’s no shortage of programs to draw missing Catholics back to church, but few can boast of their efforts in a single diocese as “an increase of 92,000...
Author - Bryan Cones
The high pitch of pro-life advocacy could heed some old-fashioned parental guidance. I normally wouldn't pass as an applause line, but Archbishop Michael...
Catholics should find a way to welcome couples whose paths to the altar don't go straight down the center aisle. Full disclosure: I hate weddings...
A holy-card priest is not the best patron to lead 21st-century ministers into the future. Father Albert Henkel was a good priest. Though gruff and grumbly on...
The value of a faith community can’t be crunched on a balance sheet. Thirteen in Miami, 52 in Cleveland, 33 in Albany, New York. No, these aren’t...
Mass could use the hard dose of reality offered by those recovering from addiction. I go to church every Sunday with a bunch of addicts. Well...
U.S. women religious deserve better than the nunsense of a Vatican investigation. It must be hard being a Sister in America. You spend a century creating a...
Catholics shouldn't let single-issue politics deprive us of our hard-won place at the heart of America's democracy. Ah, spring. A warming sun melts the...
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), whose members are commonly known as “Lefebvrites” after their founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, is a group of about...
Lent is a good time to call time-out on our First World feeding frenzy. "Eat the world” is the slogan of the food court at a high-end Magnificent...
