SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, 2013 | Faith is the source of light, of guidance for the Christian life. “We walk by faith, not by sight,” wrote St Paul. In his highly anticipated first encyclical, The […]
“The state of Maryland was the first experiment in religious freedom in human history. Lord Baltimore and his Catholics were a long march ahead of William Penn and his Quakers on what is now called […]
My wife recently had a discussion with a former high school friend of hers regarding the Gosnell abortion trial in Philadelphia. They were in complete agreement that what this so-called “doctor” had done was intentionally […]
I have just returned from participating in the press conference yesterday on religious liberty at the National Press Club in Washington, D C. Featuring Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, who serves as the chair of […]
Happy 237th birthday, America! Two cheers for democracy! Why only two? Aren’t we supposed to cheer wildly for democracy as unambiguously good? Don’t we have a moral obligation to hold up democracy as the best—indeed, […]
MPAA Rating, PG-13 USCCB Rating, A-III Reel Rating, (2 out of 5) Zombies are among the greatest MacGuffins in contemporary literature and cinema. Any thoughtful examination of the subject of the living dead leads […]
Standing in front of a famous 1964 photo of Father Theodore Hesburgh locking arms with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, honored Father Hesburgh at a party on Capitol Hill […]
As the national debate over same-sex marriage rages on, it’s not uncommon for Catholics – online and elsewhere – to float the idea that the Church needs to get out of the marriage business altogether. […]
Will you be celebrating Natural Law this July 4th? You should be. Your Founding Fathers did. In declaring their independence and asserting their God-given rights, the Founding Fathers—particularly the pen of Thomas Jefferson—acknowledged the “Laws […]
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