What is the responsibility of Catholic school teachers with regard to the spoken and lived representation of Catholic moral values? Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate is a helpful point of departure […]
From the Associated Press, this news from the state in which I’ve resided since 1991: Marion County Judge Vance Day is being investigated by a judicial fitness commission in part over his refusal to perform […]
Last night the ABC News program 20/20 aired a “virtual audience” in which Pope Francis spoke via satellite to Catholics from three US locations: Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, congregants from Sacred Heart […]
The age of Jenner, Obergefell, and #BlackLivesMatter puts issues of identity at the center of public life. As Catholics and citizens we need to understand what that means. Personal identity orients us in the world. […]
Last spring’s Pew Report on “America’s Changing Religious Landscape” has garnered widespread media attention, much of it to proclaim that Christianity is dying. The news wasn’t all bad for believers; for example, as Catholics in […]
The September 2nd edition of the Wall Street Journal discussed the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who will not issue a marriage license to two gays who armed with newly-found “constitutional rights” (Davis […]
William P. Clark died two years ago this past August. When he passed, I wrote a tribute at The American Spectator, aptly titled “Bill Clark’s Divine Plan.” For those unfamiliar with Judge Clark, he was, […]
Journalists are understandably fond of conflict—after all, it gives them something to talk about. Media coverage and commentary relating to a drop in Pope Francis’ popularity rating in a recent Gallup poll was an illustration […]
The upcoming canonization of Blessed Junípero Serra in Washington, D.C. – the first ever to take place on American soil – has generated, as I’m sure you know, a good deal of controversy. For his […]
In 2003, Elizabeth Maguire, publisher of Basic Books, made a proposal: I should write Letters to a Young Catholic as part of a series she was doing that included volumes like Letters to a Young Contrarian, Letters to […]
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