In my essay “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding” I focused on some little-known facts about the American Founding in general. The final three of those “10 things” mentioned Catholics and Catholicism, […]
In 2023, the newly minted cardinal Robert Prevost was asked by CNS about comments he made a decade earlier on “beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel,” including abortion and the “homosexual lifestyle.” Had his views […]
(Chur, Switzerland. kath.net) Hans Küng would have enjoyed the 2021-2024 Vatican Synod. Because he was the one who tried sixty years earlier to equate the concepts of Synod (or Council) and Church. That was supposed to […]
Last week I argued that the U.S. should stay out of Israel’s war with Iran. America has now entered the war by bombing three facilities associated with Iran’s nuclear program. Is this action morally justifiable in light […]
Current Eucharistic debates cannot be reduced to allowing or not allowing the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. If that was the issue rather than just a symptom, a solution might be more readily worked […]
Editor’s note: The prominent Catholic theologian Fr. David Tracy (1939-2025), who was known for his writings on pluralism, religious diversity, and interreligious dialogue, died on April 29th, at the age of 86. In this essay, aspects […]
When the Catholic Church commemorates the martyrdoms of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More every June 22nd, people tend to think that their deaths were just collateral damage in King Henry VIII’s spat with the […]
They say, “Never meet your heroes; you’ll only be disappointed.” That rule must apply even more when you are a devout Catholic, and your hero is a Protestant pastor. Nevertheless, I, the Catholic, ignored that […]
Living in Exile “Reflect on what has been assigned to you.” Sirach 3:22 Today, fewer than half of adult American women are married. While that percentage was notably higher in the 70s, I witnessed firsthand a key […]
Surprise! The Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) has returned as a hot-button issue, if it ever really left. Singapore’s Cardinal William Goh Seng Chye hopes restrictions on the TLM will be dropped, The Catholic Herald reports. In […]
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