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…

No, What Happened to Notre Dame? is not about Notre Dame’s football fortunes and coaching choices, although perhaps in some sense it is. But to better understand the role the University of Notre Dame plays in the Catholic Church…

The only other protester we saw was dressed in bright yellow boxer shorts and a blue, pointed magician cap.

“That’s right!   That’s right!” he responded to our ‘Please Don’t Pass the Healthcare Bill’ sign.  “I think they’re spitting on…

It was three years ago this week that I sat before the Secular Tribunal of Mr. Sean Hannity in a Fox News interview and inadvertently became the whipping boy for the Catholic Church’s teaching on contraception. In times past, the…

“Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent” — Psalm 71:9 ESV.

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and…

In case you haven’t heard the news, researchers in Texas have recently declared that, based on their analysis of human genes, about eight percent of the human genome comes from viruses. Almost a tenth of your own DNA, then, comes…

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,…

What a difference 15 years can make.

Back in 1996, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales issued a document, The Common Good and Catholic Social Teaching, to address political issues facing Britain at the time. Leaving aside the incoherence…

Pope Benedict XVI recently issued the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus in response to a large number of Anglicans having expressed the desire to be received into the Church.  Shortly thereafter, a reporter actually asked a Catholic bishop if the Pope’s…

We in the US are appalled at terrorist killings throughout the world that brutally target random groups of men, women, and children belonging to nations or cultures that some in Islam deem unacceptable to Allah. Of all attacks to date,…