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February 2015

February 19, 2015
by Russell Shaw The likelihood that the Supreme Court next June will announce its discovery...
February 05, 2015
By Russell Shaw I try to take American politics seriously, I really do. Serious issues...
February 04, 2015
by Zeger Polhuijs This is the second in a series of looks at the works...
February 03, 2015
By Very Rev. Robert Barron I write these words on the one hundredth anniversary of...

January 2015

January 30, 2015
Many atheists and agnostics today insistently argue that it is altogether possible for non-believers in...
January 25, 2015
First in a series of looks at the works of the Community of Sant'Egidio, in...
January 22, 2015
By Russell Shaw Is the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage, including indissolubility, an ideal or...
January 21, 2015
By Bishop Thomas Tobin Pope Francis has frequently used the phrase “throwaway culture” to lament...
January 13, 2015
by Max Lindenman If you want to help the Kurdish people and fight IS, the...
January 12, 2015
by Jennifer Roback Morse Pundits Left and Right have been jockeying for position in anticipation...
January 12, 2015
by Sarah Martinez When Elizabeth Scalia shared a past First Things essay on Twitter, I...
January 12, 2015
By Very Rev. Robert Barron Daniel Dennett, one of the “four horsemen” of contemporary atheism,...
January 08, 2015
By Russell Shaw President Lyndon Baines Johnson had spoken the words “Great Society” before, but...
January 06, 2015
by Chris Lowney Pope Francis just named the first-ever Cardinals from Cape Verde, Tonga, and...

December 2014

December 22, 2014
By Russell Shaw Let’s face it, 2014 was a rotten year for heroes and hero...
December 19, 2014
By Very Rev. Robert Barron Ridley Scott’s new film “Exodus: Gods and Kings” features Moses,...
December 12, 2014
by Shannen Dee Williams, PhD On Monday, December 8, 2014, a small group of U.S....
December 11, 2014
by Russell Shaw For months after the Supreme Court abruptly legalized abortion in its Roe...
December 04, 2014
When Joseph Bottum announced the release of his newly-created Christmas music, the cranky managing editor...
December 02, 2014
by Max Lindenman While covering Pope Francis’ visit to Turkey for the Aleteia news outlet,...
December 01, 2014
Dietrich von Hildebrand and Our Relativistic Age By Very Rev. Robert Barron Postmodern relativism and...

November 2014

November 27, 2014
by Russell Shaw To many Germans in the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler looked like just...
November 25, 2014
By Shana Buck, OFS When I read about the Holy Father addressing the needs of...
November 20, 2014
By Rev. Msgr. Kieran E. Harrington This past Wednesday I buried a friend. Actually, she...
November 19, 2014
By Very Rev. Robert Barron One of the classical demonstrations of God’s existence is the...
November 13, 2014
by Russell Shaw During the 10:30 Mass in my parish a couple of Sundays ago...

October 2014

October 31, 2014
By Judy Klein Author’s note: I have quoted and paraphrased liberally from Ann Voskamp’s blog...
October 31, 2014
By Russell Shaw The headline on a recent Washington Post Op-Ed about the rise of...
October 30, 2014
By Very Rev. Robert Barron The controversies surrounding the recent Extraordinary Synod on the Family...
October 15, 2014
by Colette M. Liddy When my mother passed away, my brother John found a list...
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