As I stood in line waiting to go to confession recently (yes, I still do that), a man who’d lately... Read more
As I think about the Senate hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the entire affair takes on... Read more
“Am I Hamlet or Don Quixote?” Pope Paul VI once asked that question about himself, and whatever his answer might... Read more
What do serious, practicing Catholics think about the sex abuse crisis? To find out, you can commission a public opinion... Read more
The speaker was a highly sophisticated layman, possessor of a doctorate and professor of theology at a major Catholic university.... Read more
Statements by Pope Francis and American bishops reacting to the Church’s sex abuse scandal suggest they are serious about getting... Read more
In the half-century since Pope Paul VI published his encyclical Humanae Vitae reaffirming that contraception is always wrong, opponents of... Read more
On the eve of the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, Pope Francis led a crowd of 20,000 in St. Peter’s Square... Read more
For Americans on both sides of social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from... Read more
Just 70 years ago this month a slender novel bearing the innocuous title The Loved One made its appearance in... Read more
Rumors have been flying around Washington that Justice Anthony Kennedy will announce his retirement from the Supreme Court shortly after... Read more
Barring further developments (and let’s hope that there aren’t any), the kerfuffle over the Catholic chaplain of the House of... Read more
According to reports, evangelical leaders are planning a gathering that will bring a thousand pastors to Washington later this spring... Read more
The news that Pope Francis has set in motion the planning for a synod of bishops of the Amazon region... Read more
In his much discussed indictment of secularized liberal democracy, Polish philosopher and sometime government minister Ryszard Legutko writes bitingly of... Read more
Defeat on a Senate procedural vote last January of legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy was a... Read more
“We are all students of Grisez now.” The man who said that several years ago was a Catholic theologian not... Read more
Promoting international religious liberty is one of those things that America ought to be doing for its own sake, but... Read more
“We are at the limit of what is licit.” In early December Pope Francis offered that assessment of nuclear deterrence... Read more