Bible Preaching and Healing the Culture May 19, 2016 If Catholics in the U.S. are going to be healers of our wounded culture, we’re going to have to learn...
Now What? May 13, 2016 What is the thoughtful Catholic voter to do when neither presidential candidate is even minimally committed to human dignity, the...
Good Catholics, Good Citizens May 4, 2016 The Catholic love affair with the United States of America is heading into rough and uncharted waters – not only...
The Most Important Day of Your Life April 26, 2016 DURING TALKS AROUND the country in recent years, I’ve been asking Catholic audiences how many of those present know the...
The Best Nuncio We’ve Had Thus Far April 20, 2016 The announcement that Archbishop Christoph Pierre will succeed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as apostolic nuncio to the U.S. is an...
The Merciful Grace Of the Truth April 13, 2016 At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or...
After the ‘G-word’ Has Been Spoken April 7, 2016 In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed were known as...
Easter Is Not a Question Mark March 23, 2016 The grittiness of Lent, and the “intransigent historical claims” without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us...
A Sordid Anniversary, To Be Remembered March 16, 2016 The crucial moment in this calculated aggression came 70 years ago, on March 8-10, 1946, in Lviv, Ukraine. There, after...
Resisting the Demagogue March 10, 2016 YOU’VE GOT TO have a good memory for mid-Sixties pop music to remember the Seekers, an Aussie quartet that once...