The Education of Héctor Villa A novel by Chilton Williamson, Jr. Chronicles Press (Rockford, IL), 2012. 208 pages. Toss out your glitzy tourist-bureau guide to New Mexico, the “Land of Enchantment.” You’ll have a lot […]
In a Public Discourse essay titled, “Deciding Who Gets Religious Freedom: The Latest HHS ‘Accommodation’”, Matthew J. Franck puts forth some withering criticism of the Obama administration’s most recent revisions to the HHS mandate, saying that […]
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, released a statement today responding to the proposed changes to the HHS mandate that were announced by the Obama administration last week. While laying out what he sees […]
George Weigel discusses each in a short essay on the First Things site about his new book, Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church: The challenge can be defined simply: Throughout the Western world, the culture no […]
The Incarnation did not happen silently. The Angel Gabriel spoke to Mary, and she heard and responded. There were actual words, a dialogue using voices. In the very beginning of all things, God used words. […]
In the early fall of 2010, I wrote this Catholic World Report piece on the mysterious and gruesome murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese in Iskenderun: Iskenderun, a port city on the Eastern shore of the […]
The Vatican Information Service’s report on Benedict’s most recent General Audience, given today: Vatican City, 6 February 2013 (VIS) – Continuing his catechesis on the symbol of Christian faith, the Holy Father’s General Audience today […]
“The event of the Incarnation, of God who became man, like us, shows us the daring realism of divine love. God’s action, in fact, was not limited to words. On the contrary, we might say that […]
In what is, to my knowledge, the first response from an American bishop to the proposed changes to the HHS mandate rolled out by the Obama administration last Friday, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has […]
It all started during the 2012 presidential campaign. Ann Romney, reaching out to female voters—especially independents in swing states—publicly commiserated with their angst over job and economic uncertainties. In a terse, staccato tone, Hilary Rosen, […]
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