I join other people of faith in mourning the death of Troy Davis, who was killed by lethal injection in Jackson, Georgia tonight. Davis had been convicted of the 1989 killing of off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail. One of the...
Read MoreAfter the conclusion of the New Evangelization conference that I wrote about in a previous post, I was able to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was a fitting conclusion to a three-day...
Read MoreLast week I traveled to Washington, D.C. for a conference sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic University of America. The conference focused on the Intellectual Tasks of the New...
Read MoreI bought my daughter the New Picture Book of Saints (1962, reprinted in 1974, 1979, and 1988) at the Borders that is going out of business. I didn’t really look at it carefully until we got home. Unfortunately, all sales are...
Read MoreIn his 2011 plenary address to the Academy of Catholic Theology, published in the 7/21/11 volume of Origins, Fr. Thomas Weinandy said, among other provocative claims: “Given the bankruptcy of so much modern and...
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