Essay

Like many institutions of higher education in the United States, Loyola Marymount University wrestles with questions of religious identity. These discussions—at least as they relate to faculty composition—can now be better informed thanks to a […]

Readings for Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016: • Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 40:1-5, 9-11 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 • Acts 10:34-38 or Or Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7  […]

On December 7, 1990, less than a year after dismantling of the notorious Berlin Wall started, I gave a talk entitled “A New Political World Disorder?” at a prestigious international colloquium whose chief topic was […]

Editor’s note: Catholic World Report recently held an essay contest for students at Ave Maria University in Florida, in which students were asked to reflect upon the main themes of last October’s Synod on the […]

The Church recently celebrated the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God — a wonderful way to begin the New Year. Some might be inclined to fault the Church for placing this solemnity on New Year’s […]

A month has already gone by since Pope Francis set foot on Kenya soil, on his first apostolic visit to the African continent, a visit which also took him to Uganda and the Central African […]

“Actually,” you say, after reading the above title, “I never thought of celebrating Christmas as an act of defiance.” But I suggest that perhaps you should. “Why?” you ask. Why what? “Why is celebrating Christmas […]

Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first letter to the Christians at Corinth. Yet whatever the dating, and irrespective of scholarly disputes about whether “Luke,” […]

Like many of the faithful who live in the Western hemisphere, my imagination has often been drawn far to the east, where our Lord lived, died, and rose again. This is especially true around Christmas, […]