On December 7, 1965, Pope Paul solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, known by its Latin incipit (opening words) as Dignitatis Humanae. The Council thereby turbocharged the Catholic Church’s transformation into the world’s premier […]
In early October, a dinner conversation with an old friend turned to why we both find the National Football League virtually unwatchable these days: the constant penalties (often elongated into absurdly lengthy reviews); incessant injuries […]
The All Saints Day proclamation of St. John Henry Newman as a Doctor of the Church was entirely welcome, if not without a certain irony. First, the good news. Newman was one of the most […]
Sixty years ago, on October 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council adopted, and Pope Paul VI promulgated, the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, known by the first words in the […]
The “Mother of Parliaments”—that’s the one in London—has been embroiled for months in a debate over “assisted dying,” which is euphemized elsewhere under other Orwellian monikers: “Medical Assistance in Dying,” “Physician Assisted Suicide,” “Physician Assisted […]
The late Father Richard John Neuhaus had a love/hate relationship with the New York Times. Richard was a passionate partisan of New York City, which he sometimes described as a preview of the New Jerusalem, but […]
In his statement commenting on Senator Richard Durbin’s decision to decline a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal Blase Cupich admonished U.S. Catholics to reflect on a homily that Pope John Paul […]
The permanent exhibit in the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. includes original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Constitution’s first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights. However faded […]
For two weeks every year, the Church ponders St. Augustine’s lengthy sermon On Pastors in the Liturgy of the Hours. It cannot make easy reading for those charged with the cura animarum, the “care of […]
In this raw, emotionally overwrought moment in our public life, few topics generate more passion than gender ideology and the associated practice of gender “transition.” Several Catholic leaders have tried to address the ideology and […]
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