It's never easy to bring unwelcome truths into the public realm.

Over the past decade, I've suggested—too many times to count—that we're living through a kind of second Reformation. An entirely new Reformation.

When I was an auxiliary bishop in the Los Angeles Archdiocese some years ago, the state of California was militating in favor of physician-assisted suicide.

The most important issue about the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's recent response regarding "transgender" baptism is the use of the word "transgender."

I find a common confusion in the use of the phrase "free gift."

Last week, the presidents of three Ivy League universities—Harvard, MIT, and Penn—appeared before Congress to address the issue of anti-Semitism on their campuses, in the wake of the conflict between Hamas and the state of Israel.

Now that I've had a bit of time to readjust to my normal rhythm and to think through the rather extraordinary experience of the last month in Rome, I would like to share some impressions of the Synod on Synodality, even as I will endeavor not to violate the pope’s request that we refrain from talking about particular participants and votes.

When I published Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak several years ago, I asked Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of The Ruth Institute to write the Foreword.

Because Catholicism is incarnational, it strives to become inculturated in whatever culture it is found, like yeast and like salt.

It is said that every era inevitably finds itself face to face with a particular question, a burning issue that belongs to it—and to it alone.