Through their lives and actions, our fathers teach us about love – and especially about God’s love for us.

There is no magic formula for dealing with a grieving person. The best way to reach out to someone will depend on your relationship with that person and where he or she is in the grieving process.

A valid marriage is essentially a marriage where the wedding “worked,” and produced a true bond. In contrast, an attempted marriage where one of these necessary elements was absent would be considered an “invalid” or “null” marriage.

It’s wise to acknowledge that not every fight can be won; that we may not have the resources to sustain a war on many fronts; that victory sometimes costs us more than we can afford

IVF treatments — which fertilize an egg outside the body in a laboratory dish — are opposed by the Catholic Church because they frequently involve the destruction of human embryos, in addition to other ethical and moral issues.

We must reject the “wall of separation” as the formula for religious repression that it is.

To argue that we must compromise the church’s moral and social teaching so that we may cast a vote for “the lesser of two evils” is to declare implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) that Christianity is of only moderate importance compared with the electoral politics of the day.

Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, Father Peyton was perhaps the best-known “media priest” this side of Archbishop Fulton Sheen

What is a person of faith to do before the enormity of AI and all the other digital technologies we have in our hands? Trust in God and make sure to keep the human person at the center for all our digital interactions.

And just as the divers who found the San Jose did not work alone, so too those who are retrieving the faith do not work alone.