A canon lawyer friend of mine says Senator Edward Kennedy had a canonical right to a church funeral. Not that my friend is a Kennedy fan. He just thinks the law reads that way. I think…

If the newly nominated Judge Samuel Alito is confirmed, the US Supreme Court will have “five out of nine” justices who are Catholics — Alito, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, and Roberts. What does that say about the state of things?

Well,…

Are some issues in the upcoming election more important than others? Absolutely. I say that as a long-time advocate of what’s called a Consistent Life Ethic. My thinking has always been that the alternative to a Consistent Life Ethic is…

Not all bishops, of course. But many. Certainly, many more this year than in the past thirty years. Consider one example.

Recently, the Bishop of Colorado Springs, Michael Sheridan, issued a pastoral letter warning Catholic politicians who support abortion, euthanasia,…

Rush Limbaugh’s problem with pain pills has been plastered on the front pages of news magazines and run as lead stories on the nightly news. On the one hand, the prominence of the story makes perfect sense.

Big Man, Big…

Ignatius Press has launched an exciting new venture in Catholic higher education — Campion College of San Francisco. The new two-year program of integrated Catholic liberal arts and great books curriculum is slated to begin in the Fall of…

Mark Brumley is managing editor of Catholic Dossier, where this article first appeared. A convert from Evangelical Protestantism, he was greatly influenced by Bouyer's book, The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, when he first read it over 20 years…