How can we define this historic moment in American history? We should have known better but the withdrawal from Afghanistan was instantaneously embraced as a
Around 7:30 on the morning of September 11, 2001, I came up from the PATH (Port Authority Trans Hudson) train station, multiple levels below the
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ
After 15 years of fragile stability, Afghanistan has fallen back into chaos. As has already been widely reported, once the United States pulled its troops
On Independence Day, a friend of mine recently sent me an old U tube of an Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen televised show in the late
[Jesus’] disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (John 9:2) A just law is a man-made
For [Pilate] knew that it was out of envy that they had handed [Jesus] over (Matt 27:18). Juneteenth, and the Emancipation Proclamation which it celebrates,
Biology is irrelevant today. So why do so many or our leaders say we should follow the science? Today a male can say he’s a
The book of Revelation is probably the hardest book in the entire Bible to interpret. It is full of bizarre visions and fantastical imagery, and
Despite what a popular yard sign asserts, kindness is not everything. But kindness is one important form of love in action. From the point of
I do not know who the Jones’s are, but I keep hearing how everyone wants to keep up with them. I have to wonder ‘why?’
I still vividly remember my best friend’s speech on domestic violence for the Speech and Debate Club in high school I also participated in. It
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. (Attributed to Abraham Lincoln) They watched him closely and sent agents pretending to
As Catholics, we have an obligation to engage in the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy. Pope Francis in particular talks regularly of giving to
On January 20, 2021, Joseph R. Biden Jr. was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, only the second Catholic President in
Anyone 35 or older should remember the “WWJD” bracelet trend that swept the U.S. for a time in the 1990s. It’s too bad the trend
Recently heard on the floor of the House of Representatives: “Amen, and A-women”. There was more to the opening prayer than that, but that was
The month of January takes its name from Janus, the two-faced god of beginnings, gates, and doorways. With one face looking ahead and the other
The Bible contains so much wisdom it’s hard to understand why so many people, especially many who profess to be Catholic, have never bothered to
The problem of free will has—you’ll pardon the expression—bedeviled philosophers and theologians for centuries. If God foreknows our actions and choices, then in what sense
If you were paying attention to news out of Rome over the last week, you probably heard about a statement regarding same-sex civil unions attributed
Should Catholics be political moderates who do not identify with either political party? Although this column is appearing late in the current election cycle, the
