Catholics are now mainstream.  The "Catholic Ghettos" such as Price Hill and Mercer County which were supported by classics such as "The Bells of St. Mary's" or Archbishop Fulton Sheen's "Sunday Night Catechism" no longer exist, and have a certain…

The Response to Vocations

[Part One, Part Two, Part Three]

As the number of priests in this country continues to decline, the question of who is able to be admitted to Orders keeps being raised.  As seen in the previous articles, this question…

Marital Imagery of the Priesthood

[Part One, Part Two]

Michael Novak, writing in the Journal First Things, comments on the meeting between Pope John Paul II and Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in May 1992.  In the interim period between…

In our discussion of Inter Insigniores, we have so far examined why the teaching needed to be emphasized, as well as some of the Biblical roots for the teaching.

As we continue, two questions arise: is the attitude of Jesus and…

With the recent illicit ordination by dissident Archbishop Milingo in New Jersey of two married men to the priesthood, and the repeated attempts by several women's groups to ordain women, most recently upon a boat on a river in Pittsburgh,…