Just War Theory and Ukraine: Would war with Russia be in accord with Catholic teaching?
As the tensions deepen, moral theologians explain the well-established part of Church teaching and thought.
As the tensions deepen, moral theologians explain the well-established part of Church teaching and thought.
I've often wondered how medieval Christians dealt with the plague, and how it compares to the way we deal with the coronavirus today.
I'm going to say something shocking about Martin Luther King, Jr., an unintended consequence of his greatness — which is indisputable.
Christianity has been under secular attack (as opposed to Islamic attack) for more than three centuries now, ever since the Deists began attacking it in the late 1600s.
In a previous article, I suggested that if you really wanted to see a vast and intricate systemic evil, working out in the open on all fronts, with every single important social institution going along, you need look no farther than at the system of family destruction, subheading inguinal.
It appears that I am doomed to hear the word "systemic" for the rest of my life.
A few weeks ago my wife and I spent an afternoon with some old friends, a retired couple who had just come back from their winter home in Florida.
If 10 or 20 holy places from any other major religion had been attacked, what would have been the reaction from governments and the media?
On the Fourth of July (even "as celebrated" on the 5th, as today), we all ought to be grateful for the freedoms of our American Revolution, imperfect though our history has been.
The history of Catholic immigrants to the United States and their descendants is exemplary of the American dream, and intertwined with the Democratic party.