"Mom, why did you and Dad get divorced?" I asked for the hundredth time.

We can understand — indeed we share — the frustration of our fellow Catholics with the ways in which the Holy Father conducts interviews and the ways in which the media distorts them, but we must not do anything to undermine the truth that sets us free. 

There was a time when "the argument from disgust" was generally felt to be a good argument against certain practices.  

Or rather, why do so many people think that it does?

If one in a state of mortal sin — no matter what the sin — has not sacramentally confessed and been absolved, he must not receive Holy Communion. There are no exceptions.

Father James Martin, S.J., spoke at St. Joseph’s University earlier this week (Tuesday, September 17) on themes related to his book Building A Bridge. 

"So . . . I'm gay."

In graduate school at Cambridge, a group of us once played a bizarre card game one of our philosophers made up.

A few days ago, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence sent out a message that within living memory absolutely no mother or father, liberal or conservative, Christian or Jewish or secular, or anyone old or young would have considered to be controversial.

Catholics who put themselves forward as advocates of social justice seem to behave as if the sexual teachings of the Church did not bear upon the issue at all.