Guest Columnist
Obama devolves
The President has twisted immutable truths in the Constitution and Christianity into their opposites. Both Vice-President Joseph Biden and President Barack... Read more
Catholic Church right to give voters a say in defining marriage
As debate surrounding Referendum 74, a Washington state ballot measure seeking to overturn recent legislative action which legalized “gay marriage,”... Read more
Same-sex attraction and life-giving complementarity
In the first column of this series, I wrote about living as a Catholic with same-sex attraction and contemplating the... Read more
Contraception coverage is 'material' and 'formal' cooperation with sin
The upcoming episode of Catholic Action Insight hosted by Thomas McKenna to air on EWTN on Wednesday, April 11 at... Read more
Demographic blues
An unfortunate incident took place for me after mass this morning. A man came up to me and said in... Read more
This Lent, why not be more faithful at work?
My head was spinning. There I was, again, driving down the highway after a long day’s work. Read more
A testimony
Time is starting to carve wrinkles into my face and is slowly plucking hairs from my head. Read more
Archdiocese of St. Louis addresses concerns with Girl Scouts
Several reblossoming issues surrounding Girl Scouts and its connections to Planned Parenthood, among other concerns, have prompted archdiocesan officials to... Read more
Premeditated murder of newborn babies justified as morally equivalent to abortion
Late last month, two bioethicists—Dr. Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva—published an outrageous “paper” in the Journal of Medical Ethics justifying... Read more
A reflection on International Women’s Day: The Maryknoll Sisters’ legacy of love
As I grew up, more important than wanting a different life was being able to imagine one. On International Women’s... Read more
The sound of faith
There is no intellectual in public life today who understands the essence of music in a more penetrating way than... Read more
Marriage and the Catholic Church: We need a counter-revolution
Forty three years ago California Governor Ronald Reagan unwittingly provided the spark that launched this nation into a silent revolution... Read more
Benedict’s ‘theology of saints’ offers a way to spiritual healing for abuse victims
An Irish woman made headlines last week when, as the first clergy-abuse victim ever to address a Vatican conference, she... Read more
Same-sex attraction and the choice for the greatest good
A major part of my struggle as a Catholic who experiences same-sex attraction has been the difficulty of wrestling with... Read more
Caritas-Agape and the Exercise of Religion
In Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, the Holy Father affirmed this very important truth of the Church’s... Read more
Why 'invent' the Palestinians?
Last month in Amman, Jordan, Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators met for their first time in 15 months to try to... Read more
Tim Tebow: MVP
So, the Denver Broncos didn’t get to play in the Superbowl. Tebow, no doubt, was praying they would. Though I... Read more
Causes of rain and sources of violence in Nigeria
This past Christmas, an Islamist group in northern Nigeria, Boko Haram, bombed two Christian churches, killing more than forty people,... Read more
Gabino's fall
Something can be learned from every scandal. I lived and worked in the San Gabriel region of the Los Angeles... Read more
The dangers of wishful thinking in the Middle East
Projecting Western ideas onto the Arab Spring seriously underestimates the danger of Islamism. Read more
