David Mills

There is no tea party movement , declares Joe Carter in today’s first “On the Square” article. (The second will be George Weigel’s column.) For the past eighteen months, pundits and politicians have been trying to identify this political animal. Everyone thinks they have . . . . Continue Reading »

In ecumenical news: A proposed agreement between the American Catholic bishops and four Reformed “ecclesial communities”, including the mainline Presbyterian Church USA,  appears to ignore the Vatican’s concerns about the mode of baptism, according to CatholicCulture.org. . . . . Continue Reading »

Father George Rutler’s reflection on All Saints and All Souls Days , and the fact that “A culture of death does not make the transition from All Hallows Eve to All Hallows Day,” much less to All Souls day. A mainlander teaches in Hawaii reflects on the pitfalls and surprises of . . . . Continue Reading »

In a late, hot-off-the-keyboard article that appears as the second “On the Square” article today, law professor Gregory Laughlin rejects — or maybe “refutes” is the better word — the inability or unwillingness of the courts (circuit and supreme) to recognize that . . . . Continue Reading »

“We can begin—today, with this very election—to teach our children about the spirit of honor, innovation, and independence that formed the nation and, even divided as we are, still sustains it,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in The Quiet Power of our Sacred Honor , today’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Late, but only recently posted: Father George Rutler’s homily for the Mass for the repose of the soul of Richard John Neuhaus on the first anniversary of his death: He is Not Here . It includes: Tonight the risen Christ is offered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the soul of Richard John . . . . Continue Reading »

As a small contribution to ecumenical understanding, on this sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the doctrine of the Assumption in  Munificentissimus Deus, here is a section from my book Discovering Mary explaining what the pope said in defining it. It is, let me stress, only a “just . . . . Continue Reading »

On the sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the Doctrine of the Assumption, a reflection on the dogma , which includes a video of the event. A government agency on the Isle of Wight is now letting girls as young as thirteen get “emergency contraception” and contraceptive pills . . . . Continue Reading »

“You are heretics, but it might not be your fault,” begins todays second “On the Square” article, a reflection on the Lutheran-Catholic agreement on justification. In The Skeleton of Genuine Reconciliation , Father David Poecking continues: In decades and centuries past, that . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s “On the Square” article, The Changed Times Don’t Last , I reflect on the counterculture and its continuing hold on some influential people in our society, beginning with my reaction to the Dylan classic, “The Times They Are a Changing.” When I first . . . . Continue Reading »