Russell Shaw writes from Maryland.
The Church’s liturgy in Holy Week and Easter takes up the central Christian theme of human redemption. Columnist Russell Shaw meditates on redemption through the lens of three great Catholic thinkers: Blaise Pascal, St. John Henry Newman and St. Augustine of Hippo.
Dignitas Infinita, or “Infinite Dignity,” speaks of many things including market economics, poverty, the death penalty, war and terrorism, migrants, violence against women, euthanasia and assisted suicide, abortion, the environment and social media. But all the Times, the Post, and the AP
A recent Alabama supreme court decision asserted the legal personhood of human fetuses in a case involving in vitro fertilization, or IVF. While this case was not directly about abortion, columnist Russell Shaw argues in this opinion piece that two upcoming Supreme
At the October Synod on Synodality, 10 topics that surfaced at the synod without sufficient time to discuss them. Last month, Pope Francis commissioned 10 study groups composed of staff from the Vatican’s synod secretariat, other sections of the Roman Curia, and
Dorothy Day's principal lasting influence on American Catholicism may have been to show a faith-based alternative to secularist progressivism. In 2023, Pope Francis wrote the foreword to a new edition of Day's 1938 memoir about her conversion to Catholicism, "From Union Square
Parishes closing or consolidating. Fewer and fewer people at Sunday Mass. An aging corps of priests and not enough new vocations to take their place. These and similar items combine in a pattern of downsizing by the Catholic Church nearly everywhere in
When a Pew Research Center Poll noted that only 31% of Catholics believe in the Real Presence, the American bishops launched an ambitious program called the Eucharistic Revival to face up to the problem and bolster faith in the Real Presence of
Mother Frances Cabrini worked tirelessly for the 'physical, moral and spiritual welfare' of Italians in need. She is the subject of "Cabrini," a 2024 film from Angel Studios directed by Alejandro Monteverde scheduled for nationwide release March 8.
Flannery O'Connor was not an evangelist. She was an artist, one of the most gifted American fiction writers of the 20th century. But a profoundly Catholic theological vision informs her art, giving her stories resonance and depth that sound deep -- and
Remember Humpty-Dumpty? He turns up in Lewis Carroll’s fantasy “Through the Looking Glass” and makes this famous assertion: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." Thoughts of this come up