I believe that Martin Luther King’s vision was of an America where all people, of every color, of every creed, of every economic strata, would be… Read more “I Have A Dream”

Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a series of lectures recognizing the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation in 1968 of Humanae Vitae by Blessed Pope Paul VI. An article… Read more “Humanae Vitae at Fifty”

St. Augustine: Confessions, Part 5: St. Augustine: Confessions, Part 6: Here are the last two of my presentations on St. Augustine of Hippo’s “Confessions” for the Nicodemus… Read more “Restless Heart: An Introduction to St. Augustine of Hippo, Part 4: “Confessions””

Here are a couple of interesting articles from “National Catholic Register,” both related to marriage. The first is on Pope Francis allowing a discussion to take place among… Read more “Married Priests and Divorced Catholics”

John Hart, founder of Mars Hill Strategies, a public affairs and public relations firm, wrote an interesting article for Forbes magazine last November on the growing ideological… Read more “Politics as Religion”

Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson’s film, “The Passion of the Christ,” surprised attendees at The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) convention last… Read more “Jim Caviezel at FOCUS”

“Sincerity — if you can fake that, you’ve got it made!” The quote has been attributed to George Burns and Groucho Marx, among others. It pretty well… Read more “Hollywood Hypocrisy”

11. It is through the sacraments and the exercise of the virtues that the sacred nature and organic structure of the priestly community is brought into operation.… Read more “Reflections on Lumen Gentium, Part 11”

Two cases have raised red flags on the matter of free speech. One case is in Boston, where a urologist, Dr. Paul Church, who worked at Beth… Read more “More Attacks on Free Speech”

A case in Canada is being called a “watershed moment” for religious freedom for our neighbor to the north. Trinity Western University, an Evangelical Christian school in… Read more “O Canada! Where Is Your Respect for Religious Freedom?”