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Advice for Europe — And for Us

Posted on 18 March 2010

At an international symposium in honor of the late Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, held in Paris on Feb. 11, I offered closing remarks on what the Church might do to combat aggressive secularism in Europe. As the same prescriptions apply in…

The Relentless Grittiness of Lent

Posted on 11 March 2010

Carolyn Gordon Tate, a major figure in the literary renaissance of the 20th century American South, once wrote Flannery O’Connor of the impact that her conversion to Catholicism had had on her writing. As Miss O’Connor recalled in a letter,…

Ralph McInerny and the Tragedy of Notre Dame

Posted on 04 March 2010

In late February, Professor Marjorie Garber of Harvard came to the University of Notre Dame as the Provost’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2009-2010. Among other engagements, she spoke to a class on “Breaking the Code: Transvestism and Gay Identity,” the subject…

The Vatican and the Russians

Posted on 24 February 2010

In late 2009, the Holy See and the Russian Federation agreed to full diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, bringing the total of such exchanges to 178—a remarkable achievement, considering that, in 1978, the Holy See had full diplomatic relations…

Robert Charles Susil, 1974-2010

Posted on 17 February 2010

Four days after my son-in-law, Rob Susil, re-entered Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he would die of an aggressive sarcoma on Feb. 5, the Church marked the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and read the Gospel of Simeon’s prophecy…

The Erosion of Religious Freedom

Posted on 11 February 2010

Connoisseurs of political kamikaze runs will long debate what finished off Martha Coakley in the recent Massachusetts election to fill the seat Edward M. Kennedy held for 47 years.

The baseball fan in me likes to think it…

Papal Environmentalism: Pro-life and Pro-marriage

Posted on 04 February 2010

In his Jan. 11 address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI continued to carve out an interesting Catholic position on ecology. The Pope insists that care for creation is a moral obligation that…

Lord, Please Don’t Hear This Prayer — Yet Again

Posted on 28 January 2010

This past Dec. 28, I was jolted out of my morning fog at 8 a.m. Mass when the deacon offered this petition: “For those who are considering abortion: may our prayers and the intercession of the Holy Innocents whom…

Epiphany, History and Us

Posted on 13 January 2010

One of the sadnesses of the reformed liturgical calendar is the loss of “Sundays after Epiphany,” which, with the frequent translation of the solemnity itself to a Sunday (this year, Jan. 3), diminishes the impact of what ought to…

America’s Roman College at 150

Posted on 07 January 2010

On Dec. 7, 1859, 12 American seminarians, who had previously been studying at Rome’s Urban College, moved to Humility Street near the Trevi Fountain and launched the North American College under the protection of Blessed Pius IX. One of…

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