Analysis
Death by Fidel
Fidel Castro is dead. To say those words is so strange. I’ve never known a moment when he wasn’t alive. Castro came to power seven years before I was born, and I’m almost 50. I’ve […]
Features
Film & Music
Fantastic beasts—and not much else
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating:A-II Reel Rating: (3 out of 5 reels) “What works well as a spice often does not work well as a main course.” — Omar Ebbs Fantastic Beasts and Where to […]
Books
Belgium bishop co-authors book in support of pre-marital sex, same-sex relations
Christ is the Light of the world The opening sentences of Vatican II’s Lumen gentium state that Christ is the light of all nations, not the Church, but that this light shines on the Church’s […]
Interview
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on vocations, elections, apostolic exhortations
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., 72, was born in Concordia, Kansas, in 1944. He attended Catholic schools in the area before joining the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, St. Augustine Province, in 1965. He […]
Essay
Not Your Typical Lesson in Giving Thanks
A strange thing happened to me the other day. My left knee went on strike. Refused to do its assigned job. Abandoned its work altogether. As so often happens in these cases, there were consequences […]
Film & Music
On our need for the real Thomas More
Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film, A Man for All Seasons. And if it’s impossible to imagine such a picture on such a theme winning Oscars today, then let’s be grateful that […]
Opinion
What does Washington have to do with Rome?
On the face of it, it’s not immediately obvious what the sobbing students outside my office this post-election have to do with the beaming countenances of the highest-ranking Catholic clerics who recently journeyed to Sweden […]
Interview
Cdl. Tobin: In an unmerciful world, the Church isn’t always seen as an instrument of mercy
Pope Francis realizes that we live in an unmerciful world and that the Church has not always been seen as a source of mercy. This is the view of Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the new American […]
Essay
Why We Should Address Jesus as Thou
On the final morning of the November meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, we were treated to a fine sermon by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain. The leader of the church in Seattle […]
Essay
Cardinal Sarah’s pastoral call to “turn to the Lord”
With Advent around the corner, one cannot help but wonder if any pastors or bishops will accept the controversial invitation Cardinal Robert Sarah made last July. As keynote speaker at the 2016 Sacra Liturgia conference, […]