Partisan mayhem has crept into everything, and a more penitential posture would go a long way
I confess to a distracted moment at Mass the day after Barbara Bush died. I was at an afternoon Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, and Bill Clinton’s chief campaign strategist, Paul Begala, was in my peripheral vision. The first
It was a beautiful sign of renewing times that my alma mater, The Catholic University of America, held a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae. A campus that once was a hotbed of controversy and
Ten years ago this February, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of National Review, died, and my life started making much more sense. I was fairly successfully editing a trailblazing website at the flagship conservative magazine he founded in 1955. But in
The prophetic nature of Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae on human life and love continues to this day. First there was the #MeToo explosion of sexual-abuse and harassment realities that have risen to the surface over the past months. And