I was saddened to learn of James Hitchcock’s death on July 14th at the age of 87. Like most people, my first encounter with the distinguished historian and author came through one of his books. […]
Having shared the story of my healing from an eating disorder in these pages last year (“Faith by Moonlight,” September 18, 2024), I have been invited to relate how that healing led to my entry […]
A recent document by a European think tank decries the “accelerating financial expansion of movements working to dismantle decades of hard-won sexual and reproductive rights across Europe.” The report, published by the Brussels-based European Parliamentary […]
Surprise and delight were the common responses to the announcement that this past week Pope Leo XIV approved the proposal of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints that St. John Henry Cardinal Newman be […]
Presently, within the Catholic Church, there is much discussion concerning the development of doctrine. Traditionally, doctrinal development was understood to be an authentic growth in the Church’s understanding and articulation of what had always been […]
Editor’s note: This homily was preached for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, (Extraordinary Form), on July 27, 2025, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. Last Sunday’s readings gave us the opportunity to […]
A recent article in The New York Times (NYT) titled “A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk” uncovered that 55 medical workers in 19 states “had witnessed at least one disturbing case of […]
I’ve always had an interest in history because history is to a culture as memory is to each of us as individuals. A man with amnesia is a man without an identity. The same applies […]
On July 21, 1925, a Tennessee jury convicted John Scopes of teaching evolution. The “Scopes Monkey Trial” has gone down in American history as the caricature of the fight between “religion” and “science.” Why a […]
John Green, the author of the mega-hit The Fault in Our Stars, recently posted a video titled “My Religion.” Green is, by all accounts, a tremendously successful and thoughtful man: He’s a New York Times bestselling author (with […]
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