A quiet, closed-door meeting in Washington next month will be of crucial importance in shaping the Church’s response to the nation’s biggest church-state crisis in decades.

Is it possible that secular liberals, some of them anyway, are starting to realize  that knocking the supports out from under traditional marriage may not be such a great idea? If so, and if their next step is to think…

Back in 1990, with the Catholic population at 55 million, there were 334,000 of them; in 2010, when Catholics numbered 68.5 million, marriages had fallen by nearly half to around 179,000.

Is it possible that secular liberals, some of them anyway, are starting to realize that knocking the supports out from under traditional marriage may not be such a great idea?

As a statement of the views of the Obama administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks were a remarkably candid—and remarkably chilling—exposition of official determination to make the world safe for LGBT at home as well as abroad.

The problem many of us have with Christmas isn’t that we expect too much of it, but that we expect much too little.

As active U.S. military involvement in Iraq draws to a close, what does the moral scorecard on this adventure look like from an American point of view?

In today’s media-saturated world, where all of us are at constant risk of inundation by the sheer quantity of communication, making sense of media requires regular cultivation of reflective silence to sort out all those incoming messages.

It’s a pity that friends and foes of the Vatican’s new statement on international financial reform hastened to all but torpedo the Vatican’s new statement on international financial reform right at the start, going out of their way to undermine it by likening it in some way to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The persecution of religion in America has begun, with the Catholic Church a prime target.