A Kentucky archbishop still remembers when a little, 6-year-old girl asked him, "Why was my brother born with autism?"

"We cannot divorce ourselves from the interpersonal network into which God has created us," says Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ, "if we recognize that, all the better: you are in a community, so you better find the right one."

"God has given us," says the author of a trilogy of books about the reality of evil and the challenge of spiritual warfare, "through our freedom, the ability to participate in this huge struggle, where it's the mystical body of Christ vs. the kingdom of Satan, and we're involved."

There is a lot of misery in the world, it would be useless to deny it.

Separating the Authentic from the Counterfeit.

Valium can be a very useful prescription drug when it is necessary.

The extraordinary fact of Catholic life in the United States is not the few bishops who humiliate us so bitterly, but the many who do the job so well.

When I first saw the mural of George Floyd with large angel wings, I assumed that it was a satire on his sanctification — effective, perhaps, but not in the best of taste.

The five truths  that follow are indeed hard. 

Over the years, I have written a number of relatively short essays on various Church feasts.