Canon 377 § 5 of the 1983 Code states “In the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.” Frankly, the canonical theorist in me has […]
Readings: • Lev 19:1-2, 17-18 • Psa 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13 • 1 Cor 3:16-33 • Matt 5:38-48 “To be perfect,” the priest said in concluding his homily, “means that you should be […]
After a battle with cancer, Ambassador Michael Novak passed away this morning, February 17, at home, surrounded by his family. He was 83. During his last months, we at the Busch School of Business and […]
Last summer, while visiting family in Montana, I had a conversation with my brother-in-law—an Evangelical Protestant—about the papacy in general and the pontificate of Francis specifically. Chris’s questions were very thoughtful and not contentious in […]
Henryk Gorecki is not a name that is known to the general public; in fact, it’s likely not a name that the general public even knows how to pronounce. But he was a figure of […]
Just as people who like sausage shouldn’t visit a sausage factory, so people who stand in awe of the United States Senate shouldn’t get too close to the confirmation fight over Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, […]
Among the fault lines revealed by the ecclesiastical earthquakes erupting after Pope Francis’ Amoris laetitia, we can see, I suggest, how some high-ranking ecclesiastics seem inadequately to understand the differences between “sexual relations” and “conjugal relations”. Most any […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: AII Reel Rating: (4 out of 5 reels) The Lego Batman Movie is impossible to dislike. It is also the best Batman movie since The Dark Knight and the best […]
We seem to be rather short of good news for Catholics at present. Here is something that is at least faintly cheering. Dame Louise Casey is a government-appointed official with the rather worrying title of […]
So far this year alone, my husband and I have conducted four marriage enrichment conferences. We share the story of our own journey back to each other and to the Church, and do our best […]
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