One of the disappointments of the post-Vatican II period has been the glacial pace of the growth in Catholic biblical literacy the Council hoped to inspire.
Many Catholics on the port side of both American politics and the Church, have long thought that they alone hold the high ground at the intersection of Catholic social teaching and public policy.
Attempts to reform the Leadership Conference of Women Religious could prove doubly difficult given the nature of the rift between LCWR and the Vatican.
It's hard to tell what irritates the Catholic Left more: Paul Ryan's proposals for conservative fiscal policies or the fact that he is making a compelling case for those proposals on moral
Congressman Paul Ryan's refusal to concede the moral high ground to the Catholic Left in the public-policy debate, plus the intelligence, good humor, and conviction he brings to these arguments,
The Vatican has finally acted, decisively, after three decades of half-hearted (and failed) attempts to achieve some sort of serious conversation with the LCWR about its obvious and multiple breaches
What if the seventeenth century attempts to evangelize China had succeeded and China had subsequently developed a vibrant form of Catholicism that blended the best of European and Chinese talents and
This argument over religious liberty in this country will not be resolved at some mythical 50-yard line where all of us learn to just get along. Someone is going to win this debate over the future of
Cardinal Dolan's recent address to the college of cardinals was an extended and moving reminder that everyone in the Church must ask for the grace and strength to accept that invitation to
Religious freedom is under assault in these United States. The assault is both cultural and legal. It is shameful that the present administration underwrites the former while being a major actor in
Building a robustly evangelical Catholicism means speaking truth to power, which is precisely what the USCCB Administrative Committee did in "United for Religious Freedom" -- and
Calling the HHS mandate "illegal and unjust" and a threat of "unprecedented magnitude," the US Catholic bishops have issued a strong declaration of unified opposition to the Obama
Some of Obama's cheerleaders among the Catholic Left are calling for the bishops to cave on the HHS "accommodation." The bishops can best defend religious liberty and social
On February 6, Queen Elizabeth II marked her diamond jubilee, an achievement that Great Britain will celebrate throughout 2012. On need not be a monarchist to join in saluting the Queen, who
The HHS regulations announced on January 20 are an exercise in "soft totalitarianism:" an effort to eliminate the vital role in health care, education, and social service played by the
"Liberal Catholics" who refuse to grasp the threats to religious freedom posed by the Obama administration on so many fronts -- the HHS mandate, the EEOC's recently rejected attempt to
Everyone understands that the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan of New York, speaks for the Church in the United States in a singular
The Catholic Bishops have made clear that the Obama Administration's war on religious liberty is one they are determined to fight and win, legislatively and/or judicially, and they
If Republicans want to win this November, they must challenge the liberal myth that conservative policies are a drag on the common good, and the fatuous notion that the only way to form "a
Republican candidates (at least these days) are good at proposing more liberty and less government, but from the libertarian Ron Paul to the more moderate Mitt Romney, they have failed to make any
Thirty-nine years after Roe v. Wade created an unrestricted abortion license in the United States, and during the week when hundreds of thousands of Americans pray and march for life, all
After his death, Václav Havel's brilliant literary deconstruction of the moral tawdriness of late bureaucratic communism, the underground essay called "The Power of the
The leadership of today's Girl Scouts is driven by a liberal ideology far out of step with the families and churches that support them. Should you support them?
There are as many reasons for "converting" as there are converts. If there is one common thread among them, it may just be the enticement of what Blessed John Paul II called the
The present Eisenhower Memorial design, by postmodernist Frank Gehry, is an aesthetic and historical travesty having virtually nothing to do with the Dwight David Eisenhower of history.
EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel discussed reactions to the mandate on MSNBC's "Morning Rundown." Watch the video below or at MSNBC here.
The Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society will take place this summer from July 2 to July 19 in Kraków, Poland. To learn more, visit the seminar's homepage: www.eppc.org/tms.
The Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society will take place this summer from July 2 to July 19 in Kraków, Poland. To learn more, visit the seminar's homepage: 