When I sat down to write these remarks, I did it knowing that this talk will probably be the last one I give as Archbishop of Philadelphia. So the words matter. 

It was the late 1990s, and I went up to "Rolling Stone" on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan to say hello to my old friend Bobby Love who was the longtime managing editor.

"Master," said the young man, "Your way of life is the noblest I've ever known, and when I hear your words about God I seem almost to touch the heavens."

A chronic temptation of the historian is to play the "Monday morning quarterback" who assumes that he would have made a correct decision in a past crisis. 

It is estimated that about one-third of the globe's population suffers from religious persecution.

The New York Times is more worried about regulating social media than protecting Christians.

Holy Week began with the great fire at Notre dame, and the surprise was that it wasn't arson, a deliberate attack, but an apparent accident. 

The once Christian culture of the West has forgotten its roots, Archbishop Charles Chaput said Friday, warning that basic principles of human dignity and freedom are now at risk.

The situation now is different from 1852 because George Pell was accused and back then John Henry Newman was at first the accuser.  But both subjects have claim to impeccable integrity, as well as being victims of justice miscarried.