Weekly Update

Wars around the world can only be understood within a proper context of religious belief and human fallenness.

What we believe is true about the world governs the way we live in it, whether we acknowledge that or not.

The secularization narrative in American culture appears to have ground to a halt. What does the trend away from Christianity - and the halting of that trend - tell us?

As Catholics, we may be concerned about who the Pope may be, but never with the expectation that he’ll be the source of our common salvation or devastation.

Recent American Catholic dialogue concerning immigration has been raising thorny issues. Where are we to begin?

After the Italian government has banned its citizens from having surrogate babies (even beyond its borders), questions about the practice bear consideration.

We need to use tools and not be used by them; we need to be humanized by tools and not diminished by them.

Few people will be shocked to hear that the academy is in crisis - but the true nature of the crisis is overlooked by many.

"Look what God has done!" Well, what has God done?

What is power? What is authority? And what do either have to do with Christian life?