One of the more noteworthy episodes during the late nineteenth-century tenure of Pope Leo XIII was the pope’s response to the so-called “Americanist” controversy in the United States. Leo XIII wrote two encyclicals addressing issues […]
On September 30, Senator Dick Durbin announced that he is declining a “Lifetime Achievement Award” offered to him by the Archdiocese of Chicago. The heated controversy surrounding the episode illustrates two related crises in American […]
Any number of legitimate reasons could be adduced for why Donald Trump won the election. But I think the better angle is to account for why Kamala Harris lost it, especially considering how broad was […]
One of the more egregious errors of the Protestant revolt in the sixteenth century was displacing the Eucharist as the source and summit of the liturgy and replacing it with the proclamation of the Word […]
When most current teachers and administrators were training for their careers, they could not have imagined that one of the most vexing problems at school would be how to deal with children who claim to […]
In addition to broad discussions about the role that Amy Coney Barrett’s religious faith might play on her judging, her detractors have also focused on her body of work as a judge on the 7th […]
Many thoughtful discussions about the difficult choice facing Catholics in the upcoming presidential election make reference to, and argue about the meaning of, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ teaching document, “Forming Consciences for […]
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