Archbishop Chaput's column

Telling the truth when we pray

Archbishop Charles Chaput writes on the coming holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who understood how to change the world as a Christian disciple. We too need to live honestly and courageously, or else we're lying when we pray.

The meaning of Christmas, this year and every year

In his Christmas letter to the faithful, Archbishop Chaput hopes that everyone might be as astonished as the shepherds were in discovering the infant Jesus. May we journey to Bethlehem in our hearts to see the newborn in the manger as our true Messiah and the beginning of our salvation, and joyfully share him with the world.

Living the last few days of Advent

As the end of the Advent season approaches, Archbishop Chaput reflects on the true meaning of Christmas and reminds us that Jesus came into this world to deliver us from the evil in ourselves and in the world.

A moment of thanks, and a new Church year

This Thursday (November 26) we celebrate a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and on Sunday, the start of Advent and a new Church year, writes Archbishop Chaput in a letter to all parishes in the Philadelphia Archdiocese. It’s a good time to pause and reflect.

A jubilee year of mercy

Archbishop Charles Chaput offers his thoughts on the upcoming Year of Mercy in the Catholic Church beginning Dec. 8 in an extensive commentary he wrote for the December issue of the magazine First Things.

Truth and the future of marriage

In his weekly column, Archbishop Chaput points to one writer's sobering discussion of the real victims of redefining marriage and the family: children. Well-intentioned "marriage equality" has serious, damaging consequences for law, personal freedom and social health.

C.S. Lewis with a microphone

Archbishop Charles Chaput writes in his weekly column about Ken Myers, who presents NPR-quality audio interviews with the best authors, artists, scholars and musicians, and who’s also a gifted speaker who leads off the Archbishop’s Lecture Series this Thursday.

As the synod closes, the road ahead

Archbishop Charles Chaput writes from Rome on the close of the Synod of Bishops -- with a special message from Pope Francis to the people of the Philadelphia Archdiocese.

Truth, conscience and the work of the synod

Archbishop Charles Chaput writes from the Synod of Bishops in Rome about an issue at the heart of the discussions on the family: the nature of personal conscience.

Mercy, truth and belonging to Jesus Christ

At the close of the second week of the synod, Archbishop Charles Chaput writes from Rome about what discipleship really means. Whether its considering remarried persons or those with same-sex attraction, we can’t rewrite what Jesus requires in order to follow him.