Kathryn Jean Lopez

Author Archive

  • Aug 11, 2026
    We may be slouching toward destruction, but if we follow the right leads, there is still hope.Three profound, different things just happened quasi-simultaneously that caught my eye.
  • Aug 7, 2026
    Being at a Final Profession Mass for the Sisters of Life is like entering into heaven for just a moment. (Sisters becoming Sisters of Life for life.) There was such an opportunity...
  • Aug 4, 2026
    ‘He chose not to run.” Michael Marlowe recalled the end of his son’s life. Jake was murdered at the now-infamous Nova music festival in Israel on October 7, 2023....
  • Jul 27, 2026
    The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne exist to love patients as Christ Himself in their Rosary Hill Home in the suburbs of New York City. With assisted suicide going into effect in...
  • Jul 21, 2026
    ‘I recognize you as the firstborn of Satan.” That may not sound like much of an insult considering some of the things that are said on social media today. But coming from...
  • Jul 17, 2026
    What the hell is wrong with us?   (I learned recently -- writing about cruelty toward Erika Kirk -- that people pay more attention when I use h-e-double-hockey-sticks. I...
  • Jul 14, 2026
    Asame-sex couple in Canada is currently suing the surrogate who made their son possible. The woman refused an abortion when a cleft lip was discovered on the unborn child she was...
  • Jul 7, 2026
    It was 100 degrees as the sun was setting, and a toddler with red curls was running toward the Ferris wheel at the National Mall, installed as part of the Great American State Fair....
  • Jun 30, 2026
    “You have to love people. And, you know, Americans love people.” We were standing outside the U.S. Supreme Court. It wasn’t this June’s decisions coming in....
  • Jun 17, 2026
    It’s not every morning that you happen to wake up looking down at Independence Hall. It just happens to be the room you got as the cheaper option on a hotel discount app when...
  • Jun 3, 2026
    Everything you ever needed to know about Pope Leo — but were either afraid to or didn’t even think to begin to ask — we learned today. He appointed Maria Montserrat...
  • May 26, 2026
    This is the Church at her best in engaging culture: Making Church teaching clear and guiding the faithful through the moment’s most confusing challenges.
  • May 22, 2026
    So forgive me if I’m not lamenting the end of Colbert’s late-night tenure. I often get accused of seeing the world through the lens of abortion. And here, I’m going...
  • May 15, 2026
    "The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta famously said this while standing before a dais with President Bill Clinton and First Lady...
  • Apr 30, 2026
    It was during the hour of Divine Mercy on April 24 when I realized what I had missed: the anniversary of the death of my dear friend Kate O’Beirne. I had been thinking about...
  • Apr 21, 2026
    The new Chaldean patriarch is a witness to the world of the persecuted church.
  • Mar 30, 2026
    Adrienne Moton would see Jacob “every time it was dark, and I was trying to sleep.” Jacob was a 30-week-baby who was killed in Kermit Gosnell’s infamous...
  • Mar 16, 2026
    ‘Men, women, and children cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew. How can we fail to heed their cry? No one can forget or ignore what happened. No one can...