In a recent editorial on condoms and AIDS, the London-based Tablet , an influential weekly in the Catholic Anglosphere, argued that “in...

A pall will hang over commencement at the University of Notre Dame this year — the pall of a great opportunity missed. Temporarily, one...

The CBS news magazine 60 Minutes prides itself on asking the hard questions that other television news vehicles are too polite, or...

Pope John Paul II had a keen intuition about the dynamics of history in his native part of the world. In mid-1981, John Paul smelled...

Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker, Oregon, is almost certainly going to get himself in hot water with the U.S. Bishops Conference Office of...

Having taught James Madison at the College of New Jersey (as Princeton was then known), the Rev. John Witherspoon has a claim to the...

Brother Roger Schutz, founder of the Taize Community in France, was one of the great Christian spirits of the 20th century. An ecumenical...

Three years ago, when Raymond Arroyo told me that he was going to write the biography of Mother Angelica, the formidable foundress of...

Dear Senator Leahy: Because you’re the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, your performance during the upcoming Supreme...

Dear Dr. Dean: Congratulations on your election as chairman of the Democratic National Committee — for many years, the “natural”...

The ideal knight — courageous and honest, courteous and modest, loyal and pure of heart — isn’t easy to find in any age. Yet I once knew...

Here’s a tale of two translations that doesn’t involve the liturgical tong wars. Permit me a brief but crucial Latin phrase. In the 1965...

Every year at Christmas time, the Pope meets with the senior officials of the Roman Curia for a review of the year just past and a look...

Young priests are among the great signs of hope in the Catholic Church in the United States today. Eleven months ago, when the Long Lent...

In the early twentieth century, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts’kyi — Major-Archbishop of Lviv,  leader of the Greek Catholic Church in...

The bishops have passed their “Charter,” the implementing norms for dealing with clergy sexual abuse are en route to Rome for review, the...

No reporter or op-ed columnist ever refers to the Dalai Lama as a “liberal” Buddhist or a “conservative” Buddhist. I suspect that’s...

On All Souls’ Day last year, I accompanied several priests and students of Rome’s Pontifical North American College to a Mass being...

On March 27, 1996, Muslim extremists kidnapped seven Trappist monks from their monastery in the Atlas Mountains near Algiers. After two...

Today’s scandal-time has inevitably raised questions about the celibate priesthood. Most polls indicate that a significant majority of...