We’d all do well to hesitate before calling someone a criminal, before calling a cop a thug.

No longer are synods stage-managed pageants that simply ratify the pope’s decisions.

'Brothers,' by George Howe Colt

‘The faith is Europe,” Hilaire Belloc claimed a century ago, “and Europe is the faith.” To say the same today might provoke laughter or confusion. When we think of Europe, is the first thing that comes to mind Christianity?Now, quick—say the first word that pops into yo

The pope is not blaming the crony capitalists of the third world. He’s blaming us.

The inspiring NCAA run of Hank “The Bank” Gathers and the 1990 Loyola Marymount Lions.

Will the 'Francis effect' improve relations between academics and doctrinal guardians?

And I say to my people’s masters, Beware/ Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people/ Who shall take what ye would not give.

It is naïve to imagine that any conversation possesses a single explicit meaning.

To hear the name Gettysburg is, for almost any American, to immediately remember famous men. First, one thinks of the legendary generals on both sides of the enormous Civil War, or perhaps of Abraham Lincoln, delivering the brief but masterful Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a cemetery to ho