Ralph McInerny was outstanding in all the important roles of life: husband and father, friend and teacher, inspirer and witness, in love with God and truly loved by God. Has there ever been a happier man, a man more able to make all around him smile?
One of the marks of a virtuous character, according to Aristotle, is the performance of virtuous acts with ease and delight. On that basis, as well as others, Ralph McInerny was a remarkably virtuous man.
America is rushing to rescue Haiti from collapse. But Haiti is rescuing America, too.
The Pontifical North American College, in its sesquicentennial year, is one of the finest houses of priestly formation in the world.
Maddy Curtis of Bluemont, Virginia, the 16-year-old daughter of an award-winning pro-life blogger, impressed American Idol judges on the show this week, who unanimously advanced her to the next round.
Recently I spent five wonderful days in the diocese of Leeds in the Yorkshire district of England.
He describes himself as '87 and crumbling by the minute'. But Aidan Mackey is a revered figure.
The past year has not been abundant with fortune for the world or our nation — which made it precisely a time when one ached for commentary from Richard John Neuhaus.
Even in the age of emails, blogs and tweets, the formal letter can still command attention.
The thought, the teaching, the inner life of Newman have an inexhaustible fullness, a mysterious plenitude that you can feed on for a lifetime without any feeling of surfeit.
