Russell Shaw

Rumors have been flying around Washington that Justice Anthony Kennedy will announce his retirement from the Supreme Court shortly after the... (Read more)

Barring further developments (and let’s hope that there aren’t any), the kerfuffle over the Catholic chaplain of the House of Representatives... (Read more)

According to reports, evangelical leaders are planning a gathering that will bring a thousand pastors to Washington later this spring to make... (Read more)

The news that Pope Francis has set in motion the planning for a synod of bishops of the Amazon region next year may not strike most U.S. Catholics... (Read more)

In his much discussed indictment of secularized liberal democracy, Polish philosopher and sometime government minister Ryszard Legutko writes... (Read more)

Defeat on a Senate procedural vote last January of legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy was a great disappointment – genuinely... (Read more)

“We are all students of Grisez now.” The man who said that several years ago was a Catholic theologian not generally seen as being a disciple of... (Read more)

Promoting international religious liberty is one of those things that America ought to be doing for its own sake, but doing it would also serve... (Read more)

“We are at the limit of what is licit.” In early December Pope Francis offered that assessment of nuclear deterrence during a question and answer... (Read more)

It’s said that Robert Hugh Benson’s conversion to Roman Catholicism was an act of rebellion against his father, Edward White Benson, Archbishop of... (Read more)