By contrast with the Supreme Court term that ended last June, which court watchers pronounced comparatively bland, the term that starts in October is shaping up as explosive. Already the court has agreed to rule ...
Russell Shaw, in his ongoing series on the Life of Christ, explores the sensation Jesus created, which can be summarized in this passage from Matthew’s Gospel: “He went around all of Galilee, teaching in their ...
Cardinal William Levada, who died September 26 in Rome, was precise in speech and reserved in demeanor. But beneath that professorial exterior lay a puckish sense of humor. His life was marked by many positions ...
In “American Priest,” author Father Wilson Miscamble repeatedly shows Father Theodore Hesburgh as a high-minded educator, public servant and priest who did much good. That he also shows the problematic side of a man for ...
In years gone by, church-state conflicts in America commonly focused on the first of the First Amendment’s two religion clauses: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” Tussles over public funds for ...