Author - J. Peter Nixon

J. Peter Nixon is a regular contributor to U.S. Catholic.

Read: Voting and Holiness

Voting and Holiness Edited by Nicholas Cafardi (Paulist Press, 2012) Elections have become something of a cross to bear for American Catholics. Not only is it...

Has hell frozen over?

Church teaching has shifted away from damnation and now focuses on salvation. Is that a good thing? To a young girl attending Catholic school in the 1940s...

The great awakening

The Second Vatican Council unleashed a wave of lay participation in the church—and there’s no turning back. Joan Higgins remembers when things began to change...

The Difference God Makes

The Difference God Makes By Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I. (Herder and Herder, 2009) Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George has a knack for delivering off...