This past Saturday, June 18th, the Holy Father visited Villa Nazareth—a home for orphans and poor children—in the Pineta Sacchetti area of Rome. The Vatican Insider reported the following: Francis is not keen on the […]
And so, in this exceedingly strange political year, what has become of the Catholic vote? There was a time not so long ago when the actual or anticipated voting behavior of American Catholics was a […]
After a two-year-old boy was attacked and killed by an alligator, Disney World in Orlando finally put up alligator warning signs on its resort properties. When, one wonders, will our society put aside political correctness […]
The TV sitcom Father Knows Best, which ran from 1954 to 1960, starred the lovable Robert Young (later everybody’s favorite TV family practitioner, Dr. Marcus Welby) and the beautiful Jane Wyatt, as the ideal couple […]
The pope’s most recent comments on marriage point in a disturbing direction but let’s address two important matters first. Point One. Cohabitation is not marriage. Largely overlooked amid the furor caused by Pope Francis’ rash claim that […]
Readings: • Zec 12:10-11; 13:1 • Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 • Gal 3:26-29 • Lk 9:18-24 St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) produced several profound works of mystical theology, filled with powerful descriptions of […]
Last month I noted that tradition is not self-contained or absolute. It’s complex, so that superior, subordinate, and parallel traditions often come into conflict. Local tradition may say one thing, Church or national tradition quite another. […]
In a day fraught with canonical confusion may I offer a few observations on some journalistic issues I noticed along the way? First, I find John Allen’s pooh-poohing of widespread concerns that Francis’ remarks, yet […]
While the IRS revoked the non-profit status of the George Soros-subsidized Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) in October 2013 for failing to file a form 990 for three consecutive years, the organization […]
For some twenty years I have responded to charges that American tribunals are lax in upholding marriage by, among other things, correlating the jump in American annulment numbers to several changes put into canon law […]
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