Harrison Butker's Speech Wasn’t for Us

by Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

We’ve got to find ways to check our impulse to demand intimate language be sanitized.  Continue Reading »

21 May 2024

A New Story for a New America

by Jose Gomez

Archbishop José Gomez delivered the commencement address at the Catholic University of America on May 12. Continue Reading »

23 May 2018

Quo Vadis II: Gifts for the Graduate

by Sally Thomas

I am an uninspired gift-giver at the best of times. If I gave you a little purse hand-knitted by my daughter for Christmas last year, odds are that by next Christmas I’ll have forgotten all about it, and you’ll get the same thing again, though perhaps in a different color.Graduations are . . . . Continue Reading »

21 May 2009

For the Graduate

by Sally Thomas

One word: plastics. And throws. Two words: plastics and warm, comfy — Three words: plastics, and warm, comfy throws — wait, wait, start over, start over. Ahem. Among the useful words which you might wish to share with the graduate in your life are the following: plastics, warm comfy . . . . Continue Reading »

20 Apr 2009