I recently returned from making the rounds in the San Francisco Bay area and beyond, where I gave some talks on my favorite writer. While there, I ventured down the coast a ways to visit […]
About fifteen years ago, I prepared an elective class at Mundelein Seminary which I entitled “The Christology of the Poets and Preachers.” In this course, I endeavored to explore the Catholic tradition’s non-technical, more lyrical […]
With the Synod of Bishops meeting in Rome, the Church’s teaching on homosexuality is again a source of contentious debate. In essentials, this doctrine cannot change, but does the Church need to alter her tone […]
ROME. The great Piazza San Pietro is a five minute walk from where I’m living during Synod-2015. About three-quarters of the Square is bounded the famous Bernini colonnades, which reach out from the Vatican basilica as […]
Chesterton may not have been able to foretell the future but this essay—”The Surrender upon Sex”—indicates that he was surely prophetic. From the collection In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton: ——– […]
Every Catholic, Christian, and man of good will should have recognized, as soon as the decision came down, that Obergefell, the so-called “Law of the Land” regarding same-sex marriage, is no law at all, but […]
What is the responsibility of Catholic school teachers with regard to the spoken and lived representation of Catholic moral values? Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate is a helpful point of departure […]
2015 offers Catholic universities two silver anniversaries which are of particular importance. First, this year marks a quarter-century since Pope John Paul II issued his landmark apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesia, a charter describing a […]
Why is the government in the marriage business? As I explain in Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom, it’s to encourage a man and a woman to unite as husband and wife […]
In the last few decades, the Church has been preoccupied with the condition of the world. It has sought to read the signs of the times and to interpret its precise ailments so that the […]
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