Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 24, 2019) at the Church of the […]
The Catholic Writer Today and Other Essays is not your typical essay collection. The title essay explicates the theme. The pieces that follow — two of which are written exchanges with Robert Lance Snyder and […]
The Church is paralyzed today. Last November’s meeting of the USCCB, the recent papal motu proprio (which I discussed here), and now this month’s USCCB meeting have all demonstrated an exhaustion of episcopal imagination, which […]
As individuals move away from organized religion, they begin to search elsewhere for meaning in their lives. Some turn to relationships, to work, or to politics. In doing so, they become creatures not of God […]
Indianapolis, Ind., Jun 20, 2019 / 01:49 pm (CNA).- The Archdiocese of Indianapolis announced Thursday that a local Jesuit high school will no longer be recognized as a Catholic school, due to a disagreement about […]
It used to seem vulgar that something like Shakespeare in Love (1998) could win the Best Picture Oscar. It didn’t have anything to do with Shakespeare, really, and was essentially just another romantic comedy, with […]
Washington D.C., Jun 19, 2019 / 04:20 pm (CNA).- Exactly one year after revelations about the sexual abuse of then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were made public, the Church in the U.S. remains in a state of […]
Extra credit question: Name the author of this admonition about the insecure cultural foundations and potentially perilous future of the American republic — “Seeds of dissolution were already present in the ancient heritage as it reached […]
Last week, I gave a presentation at the USCCB Spring Meeting in Baltimore. My topic was what I identified as the second greatest crisis facing the Church today—namely, the massive attrition of our own people, […]
I haven’t written one of those, “Why I am (still) Catholic” pieces, and I don’t intend to. Mostly, that’s because my reason for being Catholic remains unchanged from the one time I did address the […]
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