Opinion

A few houses down the block from mine there’s a house with two women in their late 30s or early 40s and two boys ages 12 or 13 living in it. Just about the only […]

The Christians of First Century Corinth must have been a rowdy lot. St. Paul, writing to these converts of his, chided them for their less than edifying manner of celebrating the Eucharist and added a […]

(Some non-canonical thoughts, if I may, on the atrocity committed in Paris last week.) One need not invoke the devil to explain most moral evils in the world. Mankind is perfectly capable of wreaking horrible […]

Of all the commentaries on the Paris massacres I’ve read, the one that seems most perceptive is a piece by Judith Bergman for the Gatestone Institute titled “How Can Anyone Be Shocked?” Indeed. The attacks […]

In the wake of last weekend’s terror attacks in Paris, Europe continues to fall deeper into her spiritual and cultural torpor. As I write these words, the continent is still absorbing the shocking news that […]

If an archbishop-elect thinks the word “mercy” is  “somewhat condescending”, what must he think of words such as “sin”, “damnation”, “hell”, and “orthodoxy”? We don’t know for certain, but perhaps that is just as well, […]

The recent online dust-up between author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and a number of rightly recondite Roman Catholic academics has revealed the tendency among the latter to resort to their fainting couches […]

Once, I was a theologian. But, to tell you the truth, as a believing Catholic who seeks to understand what it is she believes, I am still a theologian. I was taught this on the […]

Many years ago, a local Chicago sportscaster named Howard Sudberry recounted a curious controversy surrounding a major league baseball game. Late in the contest, the team that would eventually win was up by ten runs. […]

Having just returned from a week covering Pope Francis’s triumphant journey to the United States, I can confidently tell you that the news media are in love with the Vicar of Christ. Time and again, […]