Posts by Tom Hoopes

Religious people are the ones who are so insistent on our faith-based worldview that we reject scientific fact to preserve our comfortable fiction. Right? That’s the charge that is often made. And

Call it “The Hard Way of Pope Francis.” Here are three major challenges of Pope Francis that I expect hit raw nerves in more Americans than just me. 1. At all costs,

I work at Our Lady’s college — you know, that college with a long history in the Midwest, a winning football tradition, a memorable fight song, and a beautiful Lourdes grotto that

This Saturday Sept. 7 Pope Francis has asked the Universal Church to pray and fast on that day to honor Mary’s birthday (Sept. 8) and to fervently beseech the Lord for Peace

Happy Assumption Day. My wife just consecrated herself to Mary today (using Fr. Michael Gaitley’s book) , and I’m preparing to do the same (on Sept. 8, along with Benedictine College). A

Katherine Bauman reads at Rio. EWTN photo. I just caught up with Katherine Bauman, who I know as a junior at Benedictine College in Kansas and native of Denver, but who more

Here are my favorite Pope Francis World Youth Day quotes (in chronological order), and my case for why they are important. 1. Since so many people are gloomy about the Church’s future

“Can a film change the world?” asked Time magazine in March 2008. Yes, it said – and reported a $100 million U.N. film fund aimed at combatting stereotypes. “More and more,” it

This Fourth of July weekend is big at the box office, and Benedictine College’s Catholic Hall of Fame wants to know your favorite “Proudly Catholic” movies. We have fixed the bugs in

On June 26, the Supreme Court, as it prepared to go into recess, made two much ballyhooed decisions. One was the U.S. v. Windsor and related to the Defense of Marriage Act