Opinion

I am facing a pressing deadline and have little time at the moment, but I want to defend Pope Francis on one particular point made in his most recent and now viral interview, given while […]

“You’re fired!” That was the tagline of the bombastic Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice. More recently, it was the short-lived leadership policy of the deservedly embattled president of Mount St. Mary’s University, the nation’s second-oldest […]

In 2010 Ignatius Press published the second (and much improved) edition of Fr. Aidan Nichols’ book Rome and the Eastern Churches. The book remains one of the most perceptive and sympathetic—but not uncritical—treatments of East-West […]

• It’s been far, far too long since my last “Carl’s Cuts”, which ran on April 8, 2015. On the plus side, that post inspired over 400 comments.  Here’s aiming for 500+! • Today is the 50th […]

Jian Ghomeshi, former Canadian pop star and national radio celebrity, is currently on trial in Toronto, Canada for sexual assault and choking with intent to overcome resistance. The accusations are at odds with Ghomeshi’s public […]

The modern catnip that only what we can measure is real reduces man to just another evolved organism, with human lives having no more permanent (transcendent) value than other organisms. As just another smarter organism, […]

The Orthodox Church has, for the better part of a century, been talking about holding a global council, often labelled the ‘great and holy synod.’ As we are repeatedly told, this will be the first […]

In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm 22.3 of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy? Which, in case you’ve forgotten, teaches that […]

Another “Holiday Season” is behind us. And every such season, the purge of religion in our public schools just gets worse. In fact, the season now serves to remind us of one thing for certain: […]

The following comments are offered in the hopes of contributing to good ecumenical environments, especially in Christian higher education. They are my views, and not the views of my beloved home institution, Hope College. At […]