Russell Shaw
On the Road to Polyamory
Under the heading “A fair chance for children” the New York Times editorial board recommends four measures to help low-income... Read more
On Revisiting Brideshead
In the late spring of 1945, as World War II was drawing toward a close, a novel called Brideshead Revisited... Read more
Religious Liberty After Bostock
Does the Catholic Church have a right to follow its convictions about sexual morality in its own institutions without being... Read more
Sound Advice from the Chief
Disappointed prolifers were predictably angry at Chief Justice John Roberts for providing the fifth vote in the five-member Supreme Court... Read more
China and Rome
Not long after coming to power in 1933, the German government headed by Adolf Hitler sought a formal agreement with... Read more
The Roots of the Crisis
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address is one of the most remarkable documents in American history – a serious theological meditation... Read more
In Defense of Homeschooling
Although a Harvard law school professor’s recent proposal that homeschooling children be banned provoked a predictable hornets’ nest of justifiably... Read more
End Times? Yes and No
One of the more predictable byproducts of the coronavirus pandemic has been an uptick in apocalyptic warnings that the end... Read more
Security in a Pandemic
Security. Safety. Safekeeping. The human craving for protection against harm is universal and reaches its anxiety-ridden peak in the face... Read more
Lockdown Debate, Catholic Edition
It now appears that the legacy of the coronavirus pandemic is going to include an ongoing, sometimes ugly debate on... Read more
After the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of abating as this is written, but it’s none too soon to start thinking... Read more
Building Community in a Pandemic
So much has been said and written about the novel coronavirus that if words could stem a pandemic, we would... Read more
Abortion Decision: Waiting on the Court
For all practical purposes or at least most, the Supreme Court likely has already decided the most important abortion-related case... Read more
The Court It Is a-Changin'
“Chances are that abortion rights cases will look very different very soon.” That is the cautious assessment of Thomas H.... Read more
Facing the crisis
When the U.S. bishops gather in plenary assembly in Baltimore two months from now, their immediate task will be putting... Read more
Pius XII and the Jews
In his exhaustive history The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914 to 1958, Cambridge University historian John Pollard expresses... Read more
Abortion politics
Let us agree that the 44 Democratic senators whose votes last month blocked the Born Alive Protection Act aren’t monsters.... Read more
Sticking With the Church
This column is being written on the eve of a much-publicized summit meeting of bishops from around the world whom... Read more
The Court and the Cross
Two years after his death, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is missed for many reasons, not least among... Read more
The laity and the crisis
Can a one-day conference at a university breathe life into a cause that lately appears to have stalled: involving the... Read more
