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.

Pray for an apostolic exhortation that glorifies and lifts up Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation.

In a column a few weeks ago, I called upon the USCCB to drive a stake through the undead heart of the dreadful New American Bible — and the lectionary based upon it.

"Stupidity," says Jacques Maritain, "is always a vice." So are bad taste and slovenly work.

Let it be a reminder to all that, no matter how nouns and adjectives and adverbs are employed, messy thinking is a Grammar of Dissent.

There is a question any Catholic homilist could ask when he looks over almost any congregation.

In 2013, Pope Francis sonorously and rightly enjoined the bishops of the world: "Avoid the scandal of being 'airport bishops'!"

Greg Bottaro was a student of mine at Boston College. He was a very good student, but even very good students seldom write very good books. He did.