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