Given a public health crisis that makes gathering in a closed space for an hour dangerous, particularly for anyone who is more at risk from COVID-19, how will the Church teach about and practice its call to gathered worship, to...
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“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to...
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A year after Theodore McCarrick was named a cardinal, the Washington Post ran a story...
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I agree with pretty much everything Rod Dreher says in The Benedict Option, and strongly...
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Cathleen Kaveny has written an important essay in Commonweal called “The Big Chill:...
Read MoreIf there is one consistent message regarding the meaning of Vatican II that I learned from my teachers in theology it is that the mark of the post-Vatican II Church is dialogue. In that spirit, I was privileged to attend a...
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Over at Daily Theology, Brad Rothrock offers a critique of what he calls the “post-partisan”...
Read MoreBeen working for the church While your life falls apart, Singing hallelujah with the fear in your heart, Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a home. -from “Intervention” by Arcade Fire (Neon Bible) I...
Read MorePolitics makes strange bedfellows. This is particularly true for Catholics in the United States. If you are a serious Catholic and you are deeply engaged with political life, you are compromising some part of your beliefs. ...
Read MoreAs the Papal Conclave grows closer, the media coverage of clergy sexual abuse (in part spurred by recent events) has grown louder. This is as it should be. The anger and pain caused by the actions (and omissions) of those in...
Read MoreLike the head of the Anglican communion before him, Pope Benedict XVI has stepped down from his post as chief shepherd of his flock. The stories, both yesterday and today, have focused much of their time on his...
Read MoreI know that a current popular notion is that the bishops have no special or particular authority to say anything about economic policy or justice because they’re not economists. Only economists apparently have the right...
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