Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is senior fellow at the National Review Institute, editor-at-large of National Review magazine and author of the new book "A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living." She is a contributing editor of Angelus.

Latest by Kathryn Jean Lopez

A woman lights an Advent candle before the Saturday vigil Mass outside Our Lady of Solitude Church in East Los Angeles Dec. 5, 2020. (David Amador Rivera)

Faith

How this Advent can free us from pandemic anxiety

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Dec 7, 2020|7 Min Read

Andrew Walther, president and chief operating officer of EWTN News Inc., is seen in this undated photo. He died from complications related to leukemia Nov. 1, 2020. (CNS photo/courtesy EWTN Global Catholic Network)

Faith

Andrew Walther and the saints who stalk us

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Nov 12, 2020|7 Min Read

Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, testifies during the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Oct. 13, 2020. (CNS photo/Erin Schaff, Pool via Reuters)

Voices

What we can learn from ACB and People of Praise

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Oct 20, 2020|5 Min Read

St. Clare of Assisi stained glass in St. Stephen's Church in South Kensington, London. (Shutterstock)

Faith

How St. Clare of Assisi can help us make the most of today’s strange times

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Jul 3, 2020|6 Min Read

A stained glass window depicting Pentecost. (Shutterstock)

Faith

Why this Pentecost calls for a different kind of reopening

Kathryn Jean Lopez|May 29, 2020|5 Min Read

The Marian icon "Salus Populi Romani" (health of the Roman people) is seen as a group of bishops concelebrate Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome June 25, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Faith

What reconsecrating the US to the Virgin Mary means in a pandemic

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Apr 30, 2020|7 Min Read

Exterior mosaic of Jesus the King in heaven, with Mary and St. John the Baptist in the main portal of St. Mark Cathedral in Venice, Italy. (Shutterstock)

Faith

Making sense of this year’s strange, stay-at-home Easter

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Apr 9, 2020|7 Min Read

Pope Francis holds the monstrance as he delivers his extraordinary blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) during a prayer service in the portico of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 27, 2020. The service was livestreamed in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Faith

How the pope put ‘truth on display’ in an empty St. Peter’s Square

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Mar 31, 2020|7 Min Read

Jean Vanier in 2012. (Wikimedia Commons)

Faith

Finding Jesus in Lent — and the Vanier scandal

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Feb 27, 2020|5 Min Read

Faith

Where to find 'strength for the fight' of this year's Lent

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Feb 21, 2020|5 Min Read

Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, superior general of the Sisters of Life, walks with other pro-life advocates during the March for Life in Washington Jan. 22, 2015. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Faith

How the Sisters of Life approach the misery of abortion with love

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Jan 23, 2020|6 Min Read

Auxiliary Bishop James Massa of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Dr. Tahir Kukiqi, imam of the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center in Staten Island, N.Y., attend an interfaith Thanksgiving prayer service Nov. 26, 2019, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

World

Muslim scholar urges Christians to see past the prejudices

Kathryn Jean Lopez|Jan 15, 2020|9 Min Read