With the upheaval and violence in Washington, Kathryn Jean Lopez offers direction by looking at Pope St. John Paul II’s first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis. John Paul reminds us, “The Church’s fundamental function in every age ...
Kathryn Lopez writes that one of the mercies of 2020 has been the opportunity for families to spend more time together. “Family is urgent,” she says. Are we going to reorient things to help families ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez shares the miserable suffering she saw in a woman leaving a Planned Parenthood clinic in Manhattan. “I didn’t talk to her,” Lopez writes. “Maybe that was the cowardly thing, but I didn’t ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez shares the darkness and the hate-filled language she has seen in the pro-choice rallies. She notes, “This is not the stuff of professional signs and reason, but raw miserable hate.” Kathryn says: ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez shares a recent experience she had when being hospitalized for severe migraines. She writes: “I think I crossed a threshold when I found myself on a hospital gurney gripping a rosary, unable ...
Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez pays tribute to the life of Andrew Walther who died Nov. 1 of leukemia. Andrew was president for news at EWTN and formerly a vice president working on communications and public ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes that every one of us who tries to truly live faithfully in the love of Christ demonstrates that real religion is possible and desirable. She mentions the tortures of the North ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez reflects on the misery she is seeing in New York during the pandemic. Healthy-looking, well-dressed, good-looking men in their 30s searching through the overflowing trash cans on the streets — all with ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about the critical need for Mass, and for Mass to be celebrated with faithful attention by the priest. Lopez says, “We must pray for priests. We must support and encourage them. ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about two friends dealing with cancer in this week’s Taking Note column. Both are dealing with their illness during the coronavirus pandemic. One friend, she writes, “was healed by doctors and ...