Opinion

Pope Francis: Good morning, everyone.  Thank you for coming. I have invited you today because I have had a change of heart that I must make public. In a homily recently, I spoke rather forcefully […]

• Yesterday, I had already written most of what follows below before the news of the shootings in Dallas, Texas, began to break. I don’t have much to say about that at the moment except, […]

Editor’s note: The following homily preached earlier today by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the external Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (Extraordinary Form), at the Church of the Holy Innocents, […]

Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg wrote this incredible slander on the Catholic Faith in his diocesan blog after the brutal massacre in an Orlando nightclub. Second, sadly it is religion, including our own, which […]

In a day fraught with canonical confusion may I offer a few observations on some journalistic issues I noticed along the way? First, I find John Allen’s pooh-poohing of widespread concerns that Francis’ remarks, yet […]

Never have Saint Paul’s words repeated themselves so much in my mind as during these last days watching the long-promised and much hoped-for Great and Holy Council (GHC) of the Eastern Orthodox churches start to […]

Over the past year few years, Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 book After Virtue has made a resurgent comeback, especially with a series of articles that Rod Dreher launched in The American Conservative. In those articles Dreher […]

If the last two years of Synods and the resulting Apostolic Exhortation have taught us anything, it is that the question of allowing civilly divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion is not one which […]

Americans, a goodly number of them anyway, are angry. Opinion polls and both parties’ primaries are evidence of that. But will this anger be put to good use or squandered? At the moment, squandering appears […]

Life, even Catholic life, is full of ambiguities, but some things either are or aren’t. It’s a ball or a strike. It’s a Toyota or a Ford. You’re baptized or you aren’t. The papacy would […]