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The transmigration of theological nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the clerical sexual abuse crisis, spoke...
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A memoir I never expected to write
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published in 2010, I thought I...
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Speaker Ryan invites a social doctrine conversation
CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S....
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5.5KVenerating Saint Padre Pio
This article was posted on: September 6, 2017
Making a pilgrimage to the site of a beloved saint is a great privilege and is not something everyone gets the opportunity...
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Superheroes? Stardust? Or vessels of the Incarnation?
When I was first introduced to the fascinations of the DNA double-helix in a biology class at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High...
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1.9KA Work of Love
This article was posted on: September 5, 2017
A Work of Love In August, several students from Regis Catholic Schools took part in a summer service camp, called ‘A Work...
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Domesticating the divinity
Some biblical scholars consider the Book of Deuteronomy to be a collection of sermons: catechetical homilies on the great theme of the...
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It’s a culture war, stupid
Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the...
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Stay Calm
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: “Most of us reflect our surroundings. However, men (and women) with quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened;...
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The “Expendable Children”
Couples who struggle to get pregnant are turning with greater frequency to the in vitro fertilization (IVF) industry for assistance. In some...
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Questions of competence
It’s a safe bet that 99.95% of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics have never heard of La Civiltà Cattolica [Catholic Civilization], a...
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2.2KA Church Away from Home
This article was posted on: August 1, 2017
One summer late in the 1990s, we did exactly what so many families do. We loaded up our Suburban, pop-up camper, snacks...
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Are jihadis “losers”?
When I first visited Israel in 1988, my friend Professor Menahem Milson, a distinguished Arabist at Hebrew University who was Egyptian president...