M. Jean Duchesne cofounded the French edition of the Communio international theological journal and served as special assistant to the late Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris for more than 25 years.

Throughout the day, I’ve monitored news reports regarding the fire overwhelming the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris with deep sadness and shock.

The lack of a quality education is a chronic problem for persons in poverty, severely limiting their future. 

Washington is an important See for the Church in the United States, and Archbishop Gregory’s long experience as a leader will serve the people of the archdiocese and the wider Catholic community very well. 

A friend of mine, a mother and teacher, has spent the last 40 years caring for young people: her hundreds of grade-school students, her children, and her many grandchildren.

Ash Wednesday begins the Catholic season of Lent, a time of examining our consciences, confessing and repenting our sins, and working to change the direction of our lives back toward God through prayer, self-sacrifice, and charitable acts to others. 

El Miércoles de ceniza comienza la estación católica de la Cuaresma, un tiempo de examinar nuestras conciencias, confesar y arrepentirnos de nuestros pecados, y trabajar para cambiar el rumbo de nuestras vidas hacia Dios mediante la oración, el sacrificio y los actos de caridad hacia otros.

Here’s a simple fact:  Today, anyone on the internet can get hardcore pornography for free.  Even the most extreme content — no matter how abusive or strange, legal or illegal — can be had for a price.

He aquí un simple hecho: hoy en día, cualquier persona puede conseguir en el Internet pornografía explícita gratis; incluso los contenidos más extremos —sin importar cuán abusivo o extraño, legal o ilegal, se pueden obtener por un precio.

As with the persons we love, so with God.  We can teach about God with eloquence and grace; we can pour all our strength into helping the poor; we can sing his praises with golden tongues – but unless we give our hearts to him in the habit of silent prayer, listening for his voice and placing ourselves in his presence again and again, whether we feel like it at the moment or not, then our faith is just an empty shell.