The end of the year invites review. Those who chronicle 2010 will record disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti (230,000 dead), the...

Some things defy pure reason. I suspect that's why human beings resort to poetry. Who would send a Valentine card that said, "I hav...

In one of his books (it might have been Life of the Beloved ) Henri Nouwen wrote about the power of blessing. By blessing he meant saying a ...

There is the perception among some Catholics that the Church's leadership wants to take the Church back to what it was before the Second...

I’ve just started reading Eliza Griswold’s book The Tenth Parallel , and already I doubt that the jihad of Muslim extremists and the resis...

Our nation's annual Thanksgiving Day reflects not only our gratitude for heaven's blessings (notably food and peace), it also prompt...

Someone asked me recently, "Father do you think the American Church will break away from Rome, that we're headed for a schism?...