It is safe to say that when the Mormons built a fantastic, six-spired, gleaming Mormon Temple outside of Washington, DC in 1974, not too many East Coasters were familiar with the Church of Jesus Christ […]
From Tim Drake at the Cardinal Newman Society comes this bit of news about my alma mater, Jesuit Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington: Spokane’s Gonzaga University has denied a Knights of Columbus group application to […]
Surprise! Approval of same-sex marriage has risen sharply among Americans in just a few years–according to one poll, from 41% in favor in 2004 to nearly 60% now. Surprise! Some surprise. The same media trumpeting […]
“Schools, I hear it argued, would make better sense and be better value as nine-to-five operations or even nine-to-nine ones, working year-round. We’re not a farming community anymore, I hear, that we need to give […]
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 […]
Pope Francis is different. Already in his young papacy, there are many examples of his different approach to matters big and small, personal and public. On the smaller, personal level, there are the reports of […]
Below is Vatican Radio’s translation of Pope Francis’ Wednesday General Audience address, delivered today in St. Peter’s Square. *** Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today we turn to the Catechism of the Year of Faith. In […]
Almost a thousand years after its founding, an order of crusader knights remains active in the Holy Land. Its mission is not armed battle but the carrying out of the order’s original ideals: personal holiness, […]
William L. Patenaude, a contributor to Catholic World Report, forwarded me the link to an essay, “A Special Vocation: To Show People How To Love”, written by Dr. Paul Gondreau, Professor of Theology at Providence […]
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