Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Amoris Laetitia and the Words of Christ
The first paragraph of Amoris Laetitia states that “the desire to marry and form a family remains…
The Most Important Day of Your Life
During talks around the country in recent years, I’ve been asking Catholic audiences how many of those…
The Pacifist Temptation
A few days after the Vatican unveiled Amoris Laetitia, the Pope’s impressive exhortation on families in the…
Amoris Laetitia from Where I Stand
Philip Larkin lamented that whether or not anybody refills your drink at a party “seems to turn…
The Best Nuncio We’ve Had Thus Far
The announcement that Archbishop Christoph Pierre will succeed Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio to the…
Why Amoris Laetitia Wouldn’t Have Helped Me
Like waves breaking on rock, polishing and shaping by force, the Catholic faith sands and sculpts my…
On Sex Without Deliberate Consent
In his recent Apostolic Exhortation, the Holy Father puts a question mark in the margin of the…
The Merciful Grace of the Truth
At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults,…
Always Fear, Always Love
Shame and bitterness overcame me when the priest said that my parents were not married. They had…
Francis Delivers
In the days leading up to Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laeititia, one would have thought that…
A Stubborn Givenness
The Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, Amoris Laetitia, brings into the open a disturbing trend in this…
After the “G-word” has been spoken
In the early Church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed…
How the Church Failed Fishtown
The sign outside the church lists a single Sunday Mass time. The bulletin provides details on the…
The Gospel of Jesus on Sexual Binaries
Rachel Held Evans is once again arguing against “The False Gospel of Gender Binaries.” Regrettably, she does…
In Honor of an Uppity Nun
On one of my first visits to Rome some years ago, I stepped into an elevator on…
