Church and state

The Francis Option

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...

Solidarity forever

When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun Yet what force on earth is weaker than...

On Catholic culture

I’m grateful to the editors of U.S. Catholic for inviting me to contribute to a weekly blog. As a professor at The Catholic University of America and head of...