COMMENTARY: In an age of cultural confusion and spiritual hunger, the Church’s ancient faith, sacraments and moral clarity ...
COMMENTARY: Archbishop Gómez’s 2021 statement on President Biden is worth revisiting, for it addressed many of the points ...
The Newman Center at West Chester University has begun offering three academic credits for students who, as they told writer ...
In 2018, Vox commissioned me to write a story about medieval Catholic ideas and the radical transformation of American politics that had vaulted Donald Trump to the presidency. I thought it would be ...
Back in the 1980s, during a holiday get-together, one of the family elders, who was known for sweeping declarations, made a sweeping declaration: “You can’t be a Republican,” she said, “and be a good ...
President Joe Biden has long claimed to be a serious Catholic, the kind who goes to Mass regularly and keeps a rich prayer and devotional life. At times he even claims to accept unpopular teachings of ...
Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” St. Jerome wrote in the prologue of his commentary on the book of the prophet ...
Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-Eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape their Sunday services. At the other end of the ...
The closure of 39 Catholic churches in Baltimore, effective Nov. 24, 2024, brings practical challenges and emotional impacts. Part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s “Seek the City to Come” initiative, ...
As someone born and raised a Catholic and educated by the Jesuits, I am troubled by the role some Catholics seem to be playing in Donald Trump’s attempts to demolish the world’s oldest democracy. I am ...
The recent closings of dozens of Catholic Churches in the Archdiocese of Baltimore for no good reason gives me tremendous pause…And so, after 72 years of being a Roman Catholic, a Black Catholic, it ...
Accountability for anyone who abuses a child is essential. But it is disingenuous for The Baltimore Sun Editorial Board to repeatedly target the Catholic Church while turning a blind eye to the ...