Lawyers have learned that the way to frame a Supreme Court argument intended to persuade Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is to tell love stories—the kind of stories that begin with powerful barriers that threaten to […]
I have just returned from participating in the press conference yesterday on religious liberty at the National Press Club in Washington, D C. Featuring Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, who serves as the chair of […]
Standing in front of a famous 1964 photo of Father Theodore Hesburgh locking arms with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, honored Father Hesburgh at a party on Capitol Hill […]
The decision by the Boy Scouts to include self-identified gay scout members has opened a new front in the Catholic culture wars as progressive Catholic organizations are denouncing the decision by a Bremerton, Washington, Catholic […]
In a strongly worded statement decrying the legalization of assisted suicide in Vermont on May 20, 2013, the Most Reverend Salvatore R. Matano, the bishop of Burlington, called his home state “one of the few […]
In a press conference following the capture of the final suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, President Obama pondered: “We still do not know how young men who grew up here and studied here can […]
From the earliest years of the fledgling American Democratic Republic, there was great uncertainly about the limits of the authority of Congress. While the federal government was considered to have limited and enumerated powers, even […]
The recent endorsement of same-sex marriage by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came as no surprise. She joins a long list of politicians—mostly Democrats, but increasingly more Republicans—who claim to have been “recently” converted […]
Review of Why Priests? A Failed Tradition By Garry Wills New York: Viking Press, 2013. 302 pages. It was no surprise to see Garry Wills’ op-ed on the upcoming papal conclave published in The New […]
In 1990, Pope John Paul II released Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the papal document defining the centrality of Catholic higher education. Its title translated as “from the heart of the Church,” the document called for Catholic […]
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