Sometimes I think of football (soccer), though I have no interest in it.

Most of us know today's Gospel scene (Lk 2:22-40) as the Fourth Joyful Mystery: The Presentation in the Temple. 

"The Church gives thanks for each and every woman ... for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity..." — Pope St. John Paul II

Toward the end of the 2015 synod of bishops in Rome, delegates were invited to submit possible themes for the next such gathering, set for 2018.

In the popular mind, the Pharisees come across as the quintessential villains in the hero's story.

"The purpose of law is to protect and promote the flourishing of persons."

When Sen. Dianne Feinstein grilled federal circuit court nominee — and now Supreme Court nominee — Amy Coney Barrett three years ago, she fretted that "the dogma lives loudly within you. And that’s of concern."

Why do so many people — not only academics but well-meaning people in general, and in a curious way, so many religious — not see marxism as problematic?

We have a visceral reaction against hypocrisy precisely because we sense its disintegrating power in the person. 

The selfie is perhaps the defining cultural artifact of our time.