Readings: • Jer 1:4-5, 17-19 • Ps 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17 • 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 or 13:4-13 • Lk 4:21-30 Musing on the nature of prophets, the nineteenth-century Irish poet Thomas Moore wrote: That prophet ill […]

It was not original to him, but the late Pope John Paul II popularized the concept of the Church breathing with “two lungs”—what older textbooks call simply “Latins” and “Greeks” (or sometimes “Byzantines”). The problem […]

The recent comment by Pope Francis that people who have pets instead of children are, sometimes at least, manifesting selfishness brought predictable howls from pet lovers and those who felt he was treading on their […]

January 31 kicks off Catholic Schools Week, timed to coincide with the patron of Catholic education’s feast day, St. Thomas Aquinas, on January 28. In Catholic schools, we often ask the question: what is education […]

Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Thomist? That intriguing question is posed in an excellent recent piece at National Catholic Register by Kathy Schiffer. King and Aquinas coincidentally are close to one another on the […]

When it comes to planet Earth, climate change, the environment, the popular narrative describes two tracks: those who know the world is in peril and are committed to transforming human societies to meet this threat, […]