Category: News

I bet no one predicted that electing Donald Trump as President would lead to a vigorous national discussion involve St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and fundamental Catholic teachings about charity and our duties to others. Yet here we are. Last week Vice President J.D. Vance brought to the forefront a concept that should be common…

I was reading Peter Kwasniewski‘s Substack and he alerted me to the following important announcement. —- The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter has asked clergy and laity to join them in a novena from February 2 to 10. The Communiqué from the Fribourg HQ reads as follows: The recommended prayers may be found here. Source…

Despite all the jabbering about “diversity” and “inclusivity” in the Church and world, Catholics in the United States (and especially Catholic theologians) have become somewhat insular and provincial. When I began studying theology in the 1970s and 1980s, translations of works by European theologians were commonplace and common stock of Catholic publishers. Today, they rarely…

A few weeks ago two men were shot and killed in broad daylight at the busiest intersection of the town in which I was raised. This follows another daytime shooting at that corner a few months ago, and a number of shootings in the area in the past few years. I drove through that intersection…