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Dear Senator Leahy: Because you’re the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, your performance during the upcoming Supreme...

Dear Dr. Dean: Congratulations on your election as chairman of the Democratic National Committee — for many years, the “natural”...

The ideal knight — courageous and honest, courteous and modest, loyal and pure of heart — isn’t easy to find in any age. Yet I once knew...

Here’s a tale of two translations that doesn’t involve the liturgical tong wars. Permit me a brief but crucial Latin phrase. In the 1965...

Every year at Christmas time, the Pope meets with the senior officials of the Roman Curia for a review of the year just past and a look...

Young priests are among the great signs of hope in the Catholic Church in the United States today. Eleven months ago, when the Long Lent...

In the early twentieth century, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts’kyi — Major-Archbishop of Lviv,  leader of the Greek Catholic Church in...

The bishops have passed their “Charter,” the implementing norms for dealing with clergy sexual abuse are en route to Rome for review, the...

No reporter or op-ed columnist ever refers to the Dalai Lama as a “liberal” Buddhist or a “conservative” Buddhist. I suspect that’s...

On All Souls’ Day last year, I accompanied several priests and students of Rome’s Pontifical North American College to a Mass being...

On March 27, 1996, Muslim extremists kidnapped seven Trappist monks from their monastery in the Atlas Mountains near Algiers. After two...

Today’s scandal-time has inevitably raised questions about the celibate priesthood. Most polls indicate that a significant majority of...

Over the past several months, as story after story of clerical misconduct filled the papers and the news broadcasts, I have thought time...

However grim the present circumstances may seem, many of the pre-requisites for a thoroughgoing revitalization of the priesthood in...

Baseball and movies don’t often play well together. William Bendix as a Marine who dies happy in “Guadalcanal Diary” because he’s just...

One of the reasons the Catholic Church in America finds itself embroiled in scandal and spiritual crisis is that we have not taken the...