Christianity

So, how do we fight monsters without becoming monsters ourselves?  The short answer is that...

I've published this before. I think we could all use it today. Enjoy and be...

I wanted to stand down for the weekend. I’m like everyone else with half a...

  Trump apologists have made The Donald their little g god, and — get ready...

  They did everything but rope a Democrat to the podium, cut his heart out...

Demagogues succeed for one reason. They inspire blind followers in a large minority of a...

But when he saw the crowds, he was moved with compassion toward them because they...

President Trump is running the Republican mid-term campaign, and he has turned it into a...

Mary Pezzulo, who blogs over at Steel Magnificat, wrote a column today addressing what not...

I know that it is a settled fact that Brett Kavanaugh is on the United...

Public Catholic reader Pagansister asked me why I stayed Catholic in the face of 20...

Back in 1991, Senate Republicans behaved like brutes toward Anita Hill. Of course, they got...

  I may be the only pro life woman in America who has had it...

It’s like some sort of rule.  The more wrong a thing is that people want...

It’s not just a Catholic bishop problem.  It’s not just a Catholic priest problem. It’s...

I had planned to write a rather scathing column today.  I’ve been on my last...

  Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was prominent in the Church's response to the clergy sex abuse...

  Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered and I will turn my...

NOTE: The Korea/America summit is over and so far at least, it looks hopeful.  At the...

Fashion designer Kate Spade and chef Anthony Bourdain committed suicide this week. Both of them...

Is torture wrong?  How about slavery? Is there anything wrong with that? Let’s talk about...

  As usual, Deacon Greg has the story. Father Patrick Conroy has rescinded his resignation...

Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock Arkanas recently announced that he would not attend the...

Martin Luther King, Jr, was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. Every man,...

Blessed Stanley Rother's life and death offer religious leaders who are honestly seeking to follow...

Euthanasia is medical murder. It is also, in an increasing number of locations around the...

"If you’ve been sexually assaulted, your only real recourse is not to have been sexually...

I wrote this for the National Catholic Register near the beginning to Lent. We do not...

I've received a few jibes lately from Catholics, claiming that I must be a feminist. These...