Last week Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. passed away at the age of 94. Though many yo...

In my capacity as regional bishop of the Santa Barbara pastoral region, which co...

Every third summer, the Catholic lectionary provides a series of readings for Su...

I am sure by now that many of you have seen the appalling hidden-camera videos o...

Last week, I wrote a piece on Bruce Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn Jenner....

The attendance at our daily Mundelein Seminary on Labor Day weekend was sparse. ...

One of the unintended but happy consequences of the emergence of the new atheism...

A very instructive exchange between Gary Gutting, a philosophy professor at Notr...

Well, it’s Easter time, and that means that the mainstream media and publishing ...

The first reading for Mass on the first Sunday of Lent this year, taken from Gen...

A classic characterization of Jesus is that he is priest, prophet, and king. As ...

One of the commonest observations made by opponents of religion is that we don’t...

The appearance of an art house film on the philosopher Hannah Arendt has sparked...

Time Magazine’s recent cover story “The Childfree Life” has generated a good dea...

In “new” atheist and secularist circles today, faith is regularly ridiculed. It ...

There were a number of reasons why I liked “World War Z,” the film based on Max ...

I didn’t really care for the latest cinematic iteration of the Superman myth. Li...

Some years ago, The New Yorker ran a cartoon that perfectly lampooned the loopy ...

The appearance of yet another film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great G...

One of the most significant fault lines in Western culture opened up in the sixt...

I had an excellent vantage point for the presentation of Pope Francis to the wor...

In his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out a prog...

Like Star Wars, The Divine Comedy, and Moby Dick,  J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hob...

It was with barely concealed delight that “Chicago Sun-Times” columnist Neil Ste...

Given the ruminations of Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, on...