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“Habemus Papam” is yet another sign that the Lord is with us – a sign that God himself is making good on his promise to provide a shepherd for us.

For a Christian, there’s a clear order to follow when considering difficult and contentious issues: we start, always, in first principles.

Though journalists will continue to speculate about which other cardinals were contenders in the election process, the result is to be received as a gift from the Lord.

The search for a narrative worth being part of just may be the search worthy of our greatest intellectual and personal efforts.

Maybe it’s in all our interests if what we determine the “best” for human beings to be comes instead from a common, shared, transcendent ideal, one that goes far beyond any one of us.

Christian nationalism is something of a misnomer. Christians can be genuinely patriotic, of course – but beyond that, one gets into choppy waters.

The life and memory of the Church continue to resonate, in their stubborn way, across a large portion of our culture.

Are we just enduring a diminishment in reading habits, or in mental and intellectual ones, too?

Patriotism is a genuinely Christian response of gratitude to God, and we need not be bashful about it. Genuine gratitude, genuine love, however, also means seeing things truly.

Does barring politicians who vote against the moral and social teachings of the Church from receiving the Eucharist undermine the legitimacy of religious institutions, as one politician recently claimed?