Is anti-Catholicism again becoming mainstream in America? Catholic ridicule is fair game these days for comedians and artists, for Broadway shows and talk...
Church and state
The scuttlebutt around Washington is that Pope Francis wanted to come to the United States next week by walking across the border from Mexico, but that...
My dad and both granddads were union guys. Dad worked in factories his whole life, except for a few years of military service during the Korean War. One of my...
Floating about in right-of-center Catholic circles these days are several worrisome and closely related ideas for the role of the church in public life. Some...
On September 24, Pope Francis will address a Joint Session of Congress; he is the first pope to receive this honor. He will stand at the dais with Speaker...
If you’re middle class, then you probably know that you’re part of a dwindling slice of the American pie. Are you feeling like it’s harder and harder to make...
In 1998 the then-newly-elected Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami, overcame the opposition of hard-line ayatollahs and sought rapprochement with the West...
How disturbing it is to strain to hear the videoed conversation: Between sips of wine and tinkling salad forks, the discussion focuses on how best to crush...
Last week, Pope Francis issued his most urgent and sweeping indictment of the structural immorality of the global economy to date. It was an astounding...
For the American Catholic Church, the dust is a long way from being settled regarding the Supreme Court’s recent decision for same-sex marriage. How...
