In a press conference following the capture of the final suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, President Obama pondered: “We still do not know how young men who grew up here and studied here can […]
From the earliest years of the fledgling American Democratic Republic, there was great uncertainly about the limits of the authority of Congress. While the federal government was considered to have limited and enumerated powers, even […]
The recent endorsement of same-sex marriage by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came as no surprise. She joins a long list of politicians—mostly Democrats, but increasingly more Republicans—who claim to have been “recently” converted […]
Review of Why Priests? A Failed Tradition By Garry Wills New York: Viking Press, 2013. 302 pages. It was no surprise to see Garry Wills’ op-ed on the upcoming papal conclave published in The New […]
In 1990, Pope John Paul II released Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the papal document defining the centrality of Catholic higher education. Its title translated as “from the heart of the Church,” the document called for Catholic […]
Battered by another scandal involving yet another gay priest in the Bridgeport Diocese, faithful Catholics remain bewildered by the apparent inability of their leaders to protect the Church from such humiliation. While prior cases involved […]
In the aftermath of the heartbreaking school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, the editors at the National Catholic Reporter have joined with the leaders of the Soros-supported advocacy organization Catholics United to demand […]
In an ideal Catholic world, if a Catholic theologian promoted a woman’s right to choose abortion and encouraged access to same-sex marriage, while also comparing the sacrifice of the Mass to an act of homosexual […]
The success that the gay community has achieved in shedding the “deviant” label has relied upon convincing the heterosexual world that homosexual behavior is perfectly normal. The recent uproar over a social work course titled […]
After 25 years of faithful service, John Carr, executive director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development, retired last month. In a personal note circulated among his […]
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