December 21, 2009

For centuries worshippers had credited the “Madonna della Strada” in Rome with healing powers, though no one called it an artistic masterpiece.

The hope and solace provided by "The Lovely Bones" is fleeting at best--secular humanism with special effects.

Students in Michael Sandel’s class accept with studied nonchalance ethical choices at which Catholic ministry students rightly shudder.

Simeon, what you’ve been awaiting

Holy Family (C), Dec. 27, 2009

Epiphany (C), Jan. 3, 2010

On Afghanistan, President Obama is retracing the Bush Doctrine.