Maybe the devil made me do it, but after reading Bishop (now Cardinal) Walter Kasper's essay "On the Church" (reprinted in America, 4/23) for the second or third time, I went back through the text and conducted a little test.

A generation has elapsed since the close of the Second Vatican Council, and the church has underscored the council’s extraordinary ecclesial and historical significance by beatifying, this Sept. 3, Pope John XXIII. At the same time, however, the beatification of Pope Pius IX highlighted the ti

Facing the challenges and accepting the gifts offered by homosexual priests in the Catholic Church

From 2000: In a "multicultural" society shouldn’t anti-Catholicism be a dead issue?

From July 17, 1999

In These Pages: From June 3, 1995