The Catholic love affair with the United States of America is heading into rough and uncharted waters – and not only in this 2016...

During talks around the country in recent years, I’ve been asking Catholic audiences how many of those present know the date of their...

The Iowa caucuses are in the rear-view mirror, the New Hampshire primary looms on the horizon, and by most media accounts, the leitmotif...

When Ukraine celebrated Christmas two weeks ago, there were ample reasons for pessimism about that long-suffering country’s future. The...

In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm 22.3 of...

To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign – will...

Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use the term. But it’s...