If you’re anything like me, you didn’t know the name Billie Eilish until you heard the news of her declaration on the Grammy stage: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” After her remark, the […]
When some of my ethics clients describe their frustration in dealing with infertility, they often borrow a phrase from childhood: “I feel like I’m about to cry uncle.” The right way to translate that admission? […]
Few American Catholics have ever heard of Mary Ward. The more recent books and articles about her tend to portray her as a proto-feminist, a seventeenth-century Catholic woman who spent her life fighting for the […]
This year marks the centenary of the death of Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier of Belgium, who died on January 23, 1926. Priest, Archbishop, Cardinal Born in 1851 in the French-speaking region of Brabant, Belgium, Mercier entered the diocesan […]
This Sunday celebrates the centrality of the Word of God in the life of the Church. We are also fast approaching the onset of Lent. With that in mind, I would like to urge you […]
Public debate surrounding the turmoil in Iran is increasing, and rightly so. Unfortunately, I have observed an increasing default to a tired conclusion, namely that religion itself represents a corrosive threat to political order and […]
Over the course of a few days in mid-January, the U.S. Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) heard oral argument in a major Title IX case, a U.S. Senate committee held a hearing about the danger of chemical abortions, and […]
December 12, 2021, was the day my younger brother’s scan revealed the hard news that the pain in his left hip—which he jokingly called “a giant tumor”—was indeed precisely that. For months, he had attributed […]
Americans are bad at history. As the late Christopher Lasch and many other scholars have noted, we’re ambivalent about the past. We claim to be a “new order of the ages,” words stamped in Latin […]
Editor’s note: You can read Part 1 of this column here. In 2014, the newly elected Pope Francis decided to improve the state of the Vatican’s finances. He appointed the Australian cardinal George Pell (1941-2023) […]
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