I've been accused of being too "liberal" by some traditionalist Catholics and some politically conservative Catholics. Well, ...

My title has the word 'liberalism' in scare quotes because I want to discuss the sort of liberalism that has grown scarier and scar...

Even some liberals wonder what Obama's been thinking with this HHS contraception mandate. So I'll lay it out simply. When a churc...

Given recent events, I thought it worthwhile to re-issue this three-year-old post and ask for opinions from thoughtful Catholics. Everybo...

Only an outrage combining religion and politics has managed to rouse me from a self-imposed silence over the past several months. I am ...

You read that right. According to William E. Carroll —a Catholic philosopher currently ensconced as a good old Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford...

See my post at the First Things  blog "First Thoughts."     A lot more can and should be said, but as a response to Steve Hutchen...

Lydia McGrew has coined a chillingly apt metaphor for the culture of death: "choice devours itself." She has applied the metapho...

In my online career, I have found that the issues sparking the longest debates are almost invariably ecclesiological, i.e., questions concer...

NOTE: Cross-posted to Catholic Friends of Israel & The American Catholic -- this roundup will be continuously updated with further inf...