For the second time in less than a year, another federal trial court judge in Colorado upheld religious freedom in education. On February 24, 2025, in Darren Patterson Christian Academy v. Roy, Judge Daniel D. Domenico permanently enjoined […]

The National Catholic Reporter recently saw fit to mark Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s 75th birthday by perpetuating two myths—falsehoods, really—about events in contemporary Church history in which the cardinal was involved. As it happens, I was, too. So I’m […]

Progressive Catholicism Is Not Prophetic Catholicism – “Staying in tune with a liberal society that has no clear idea of what it is moving forward to, doesn’t necessarily constitute being prophetic.” The Psychological Makeup of […]

As we focus on Lent and conversion, we are called to admit we are sinners. In the old Confiteor, right after acknowledging our sins to God, we do so “to blessed Mary, ever Virgin.” It […]

On February 27-28, 2025, a Symposium on “brain death” was held at The Catholic University of America titled “ Integrity in the Concept and Determination of Brain Death: Recent Challenges in Medicine, Law, and Ethics .” Questions […]

Readings: • Dt 26:4-10 • Ps 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15 • Rom 10:8-13 • Lk 4:1-13 “The whole story of the Temptation is misconceived,” wrote Monsignor Ronald Knox, “if we do not recognize that it […]

The evangelical Protestant “megachurch” that I attended in high school was filled with former Catholics. Many of whom had been specifically targeted and proselytized by evangelicals who encouraged them to make a personal decision for […]