A Brief History of Catholic Higher Education (From the Academy): “Whatever they are doing and wherever they are headed now, all modern Western universities trace their origins back to the medieval Catholic universities, beginning with […]

A new Gallup poll has found that “young men in [the] U.S. now surpass young women on importance of religion, have slight edge on affiliation, [and] tie on attendance.” Michael New, a senior associate scholar at the […]

In a stirring homily delivered April 19, the Third Sunday of Easter, Pope Leo XVI drew a direct parallel between the biblical road to Emmaus and the tumultuous history of Angola, urging a nation still […]

According to the World Health Organization, about 1 in 6 people globally experience infertility in their lifetime. In the United States, 1 in 8 couples deal with infertility. This year, National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW) runs from […]

These past few days have given us a series of civic episodes in which the public square seems to lose its mind all at once. Let’s consider just a few of them. Joy Behar said […]

God created man—male and female—in His own image and likeness. Indeed, all of creation carries the Divine imprint. After the Fall, the Devil exploited man’s sin to deface God’s image and likeness in creation through […]

Saint Benedict Labre is commonly known as the patron saint of those who are homeless and those who are mentally ill. Did this eighteenth-century layman suffer from mental illness, or was there some other reason […]