Russell Shaw
The Struggle to Shape the Supreme Court
Just as people who like sausage shouldn’t visit a sausage factory, so people who stand in awe of the United... Read more
Conservatives and Trump
Many religious conservatives are looking to the Trump years with high expectations. R.R. Reno, editor of First Things, says Trump’s... Read more
Child Poverty and Family
In setting out to confront a problem, it’s necessary to understand its causes in order to apply realistic solutions. Child... Read more
Letter to the President-Elect
Dear President-elect Trump: Unsolicited advice is said to be the best kind because it is the most easily ignored. But... Read more
Christmas Blues
For many people, the season of good cheer is a deeply trying affair. I don’t mean unhappy souls who have... Read more
The pro-life issues facing President Trump
Many social conservatives, though by no means all, were ecstatic at the election of Donald Trump. Whether they’ll still be... Read more
The Significance of the Next Synod
When the pot is boiling, turn down the heat. You can’t be sure, but that could well have been part... Read more
The Pope and the Martin Luther Anniversary
At the end of October Pope Francis will travel to Sweden to join a Lutheran World Federation observance opening the... Read more
New Threats to Religious Liberty
Last June five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court thumbed their noses at religious liberty. They accomplished that without spoken... Read more
Is the mercy of God unconditional?
In a message to a gathering of bishops of the Americas in Bogota, Colombia, Pope Francis made a point that’s... Read more
What are voters to do?
If this presidential campaign isn’t the strangest race for the White House ever, it will do until a stranger one... Read more
An old book and a continuing problem
I’d been running into references to the book every now and then for years. People told me I really ought... Read more
What was it that set Al Smith apart from other Catholic politicians?
Eighty-eight years ago a Happy Warrior from the streets of New York ran for President of the United States. His... Read more
Can Americans fix our problems if we no longer share common values?
Speaking at a memorial service for the five Dallas police officers killed by a gunman in retaliation for police shootings... Read more
What the pro-life movement needs to do now
In the dead of winter every year thousands of pro-lifers throng the streets of downtown Washington making a public statement... Read more
St. Thomas Aquinas and angry American voters
Americans, a goodly number of them anyway, are angry. Opinion polls and both parties’ primaries are evidence of that. But... Read more
New dispatches from our endless culture war
Although the wave of battles now underway in several parts of the country over religious freedom laws and LGBT rights... Read more
Amoris Laetitia as a whole
Now that the dust stirred by publication of Pope Francis’s new document on marriage has started to settle, it’s time... Read more
To vote, or not to vote?
As the presidential primaries wear on, a potentially serious dilemma has begun to take shape for some voters. The question... Read more
The conflicts within the conflict over replacing Justice Scalia
To no one’s particular surprise, the process of filling the Supreme Court vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s death has morphed... Read more
