The Amazing, and Now Venerable, Father Al
July 30, 2015
AT AN INCH OR so over five feet and weighing, I would guess, something on the underside of 100 pounds, Sister Winnie,...
George Weigel
Flannery O’Connor and Catholic Realism
July 23, 2015
From this vale of tears, one can never be sure about the boundaries of acceptable behavior at the Throne of...
Progressive Catholic Authoritarianism
July 16, 2015
BACK IN THE late 1960s or thereabouts, Father Andrew Greeley, the model of an old-fashioned liberal Catholic, accused Father Daniel...
The Church and The New Normal
July 1, 2015
IN THE WAKE of the Supreme Court’s marriage decision, these sober thoughts occur: (1) The Supreme Court of the United...
The Summer Reading List
June 24, 2015
FIFTY YEARS AGO, prior to my freshman year at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin H.S., the late Father W. Vincent Bechtel...
The Kasper Theory of Democracy?
June 17, 2015
A few weeks ago, after Ireland voted to approve so-called “same-sex marriage,” a correspondent sent me an e-mail quoting Cardinal...
Themes for Surviving “Ordinary Time”
June 10, 2015
I’M FORTUNATE TO hear good preaching on a regular basis. But even the best Catholic preaching leans far more toward...
The Myth of Washington Gridlock
June 3, 2015
Political gridlock is regularly deplored by pols, pundits and citizens alike. My contrarian view is that it can serve useful...
Men Such as These
May 27, 2015
LIKE MOST denizens of Washington, I pay too little attention to the sites other Americans make sacrifices to visit. Earlier...
The German Catholic Crisis of Faith
May 20, 2015
A report for the synod suggests that German Catholic thinking is virtually indistinguishable from that of non-believers on matters of...