Drew Christiansen

The pope has heard the Palestinian cry, “Let my people go.”

Catholicism is undergoing an epochal transformation For more than a millennium dogma has been the hard core of church life defining who is in and who is out Partisans have fought over the correct way to define Christian belief they condemned their opponents and persecuted them as heretics In thi

ldquo Drew wait up how are you rdquo The voice shouted to me as I was leaving a burial at Notre Dame rsquo s Holy Cross cemetery The burial was for Fr Bill Lewers C S C a former provincial of the Congregation of Holy Cross and my predecessor once-removed as director of the bishops rsquo c

This Washington winter has not brought us much snow There have been repeated waves of Arctic cold for several days at a time punctuated by some strikingly mild days In one break 10 days ago the mercury climbed to 67 degrees and then plummeted again into the teens and 20s Most of our precipitatio

Should conservative Christians withdraw from cultural and political engagement?

Pope Francis is well known for his early resistance to Liberation Theology Less well known is his vocal critique of capitalism following the Argentinian debt crisis of 2002 This week thanks to the U S courts Argentina may undergo its second debt default in a decade While its impact on the debt