Analysis

This Synod is extraordinary in more ways than one. It is extra-ordinary in the simple sense of being merely preparatory to the actual or ordinary Synod that will take place in twelve months’ time. But […]

A recent study by the Pew Research Center finds significant differences between younger and older liberals, differences that are not encouraging either to orthodox religious believers or to the older liberals. The Next Generation Left […]

This year has marked a sort of second coming of “the Rapture”. On June 29th, HBO launched a new series, “The Leftovers”, based on the 2011 novel of the same title, written by Tom Perrotta, […]

Although ecumenism has received increased attention from Church authorities at all levels in the decades following the Second Vatican Council, during his short period of time as pontiff Pope Francis has approached this area with […]

Catholic religious leaders have long supported the labor movement in the United States because it has promoted the economic wellbeing of workers and their families. The Irish, Italian, and Slavic immigrants of the past, and […]

“We have been so changed that we are no longer at home in the culture and church in which we find ourselves.” This quotation from the keynote address (PDF) of Franciscan Sister Nancy Schreck to […]

In a memorable scene from Goldfinger, James Bond, strapped to a gold-plated table, is about to be sliced in two by an approaching laser beam. “Do you expect me to talk?” he asks. “No, Mister […]

I called it. One month ago, I warned readers of CatholicVote.org about a new executive order that would be coming out from the Obama White House. The article garnered more than 45,000 views and in […]

In Cardinal Walter Kasper’s recent address to the extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals (February 20-21, 2014), published in English with additional material as The Gospel of the Family (New York: Paulist, 2014), he makes mention of […]