St. Paul’s continued relevance for our contemporary culture is evident in a beautiful passage devoted to an understanding of sports as an image for the life of...
Friday, August 21, 20150610A recent controversy brewing over the proposed site of a Muslim cemetery in North Texas reminds of a time when Catholics faced similar opposition.
If you want to hide something that is morally evil, give it a good name. Collateral damage means innocent bystanders who were killed in a military or terrorist attack;...
Several weeks ago, Father James George McKenna died at the home of a humble family in Ciudad Juárez in Mexico. He died as he had lived, in the midst of a people...
Thursday, June 18, 20150371Pope Francis’ long-awaited and much-heralded pastoral encyclical, Laudato Si’ was released June 18 calling for “Global ecological conversion” based on limiting...
Friday, June 12, 20150157Much has been written and broadcast by the media concerning Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on ecology (Laudato Si – Blessed are You). Since there are likely to be...
Pope Francis, an avid fan of soccer, offered some comments recently about corruption that were particularly timely in light of the FIFA scandals that are very much in...Columnists
The Book of Job is a treasure of the Old Testament. A salutary reminder of the limits of human wisdom, it dramatizes some of the most stirring questions of existence:...