Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years By Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking, 2010) Haters of history often ask the point of knowing names and dates, pointing...
Author - Bryan Cones
Law must always be tempered by mercy if justice is to be truly served. Excommunication was once considered a passé feature of the ancient church, conjuring up...
For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. On goes the alarm: 6 a.m. thirteen minutes of news, weather, and traffic. 6:13. Out...
The sex abuse crisis should teach us that it takes more than a seminary to raise a priest. In the spring of my first year of college, I wrote my bishop and...
Every doctrine or practice familiar to Catholics has a history of its own, and some official expressions of church teaching are quite recent, such as the...
Bad news about the church can be a good opportunity to remember why we’re here in the first place. With some reluctance I have to admit that one reason I am a...
Our place in the church isn’t determined by politics or policy. If there’s one lesson Americans can take from the last 12 months of our political...
The Future Church By John L. Allen Jr. (Doubleday, 2009) There are few Catholic journalists as well-known and quoted as the National Catholic Reporter’s...
Over three decades of Mass-going, I’ve explored pretty much every avenue of distraction to make the time pass: pestering my brothers, making faces at buddies...
The Vatican’s October 2009 announcement of a special process to admit Anglicans to the Roman Catholic Church raised questions for many who perhaps thought that...
