An attorney and charter member of the National Review Board sizes up the U.S. church’s progress on sex abuse over the last 10 years. [Read more from Nicholas...
Expert Witness
Though some may see him as the grump of the New Testament, St. Paul is full of surprises. What’s the connection between St. Paul’s First Letter to the...
We shouldn’t get hung up on the details surrounding Jesus’ birth, says this Bible scholar. As with any scripture story, there’s more here...
The issue of women priests may be a settled matter, but that doesn’t mean a woman can’t serve the church as a deacon. Celebrating the opening of the archives...
With so many lay ecclesial ministers and directors of religious education out there, many of whom are women, why would a bishop “need” a woman as a deacon? If...
In the late 1980s, when Robert Orsi had just begun his work studying devotion to St. Jude, he had dinner with a prominent liturgist who had spent years...
What you put on your plate says something about the kind of person you are, says this Catholic gourmet chef and reality TV star. Kevin Gillespie comes from a...
Maryann Cusimano Love knew that it was only a matter of time before terrorists would hit the United States, but it was a dead car battery that kept her out of...
South African Muslim scholar Farid Esack speaks about post-9/11 perceptions of Islam in this interview from January 2002. In the aftermath of September 11...
Sister Rose Pacatte, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul who directs the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles, talks about television being more...
