Extremism Has No Place In The Catholic Church
Pope Francis is not happy with extremist U.S. Catholics. In his latest effort to combat the rise of conservative extremism that has become more concerning in recent years, Pope Francis has “relieved”...
Connecting the Catholic Community
Throughout the 13th annual Commonweal lecture, speaker Dominic Preziosi reminded the audience that a people is known by the story it tells. Preziosi is the editor of Commonweal, a Catholic opinion magazine run...
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Debuts on NBC
At the conclusion of my four-day holiday weekend, I sat on my couch in a food coma, with candy wrappers scattered along the floor from the early-afternoon Easter festivities, in anticipation of NBC’s live...
Condoms Don’t Belong Here
It seems the beast will not die. I wrote a column about this topic last year, but the movement to cudgel a Catholic school into violating its religious conscience for the momentary sexual appetites of its...
Students Fight For Their Faith
As you will find out in your time at Fairfield University, the Latin Jesuit aphorisms that adorn orientation materials are at their best, time-honored principles of human action and at their most ubiquitous,...
Putting Pleasure Aside for Lent
Every Lent, the Catholic Church fully engages itself with the historicity of its Divinity crucified. In the trial, execution and burial of Jesus of Nazareth, there is one question posed by a New Testament...