Happy St. Jerome’s Day! Or maybe not so happy. News broke yesterday on the Catholic Bible Talk blog that a Catholic Edition of the New Revised Standard Version updated edition (NRSVue) has been approved by the USCCB. According to the Friendship Press YouTube channel, from which Catholic...

Readers of this column know that I occasionally opine on matters of Biblical scholarship about which I have no expertise. Buckle up because I am about to do it again. In fact, it is because I have no expertise that I want to say something about this. Something on behalf of us little people, the...

“Support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has dropped 14 points in the last 3 years, per Gallup.” So reports Bryan Metzger, a senior politics reporter for Business Insider. According to Gallup’s analysis of their own numbers: Ten years after the Supreme Court...

I am grateful to OSV News for reporting on my concerns about the USCCB’s granting of an imprimatur to the New Revised Standard Version updated edition (NRSVue) Bible. I appreciate USCCB Scripture scholar Father Pablo Gadenz responding directly to my concerns. But I found his responses...

Steven Greydanus, a deacon of the Archdiocese of Newark and former film critic for the National Catholic Register, has penned a “longread” Substack article against Bishop Robert Barron. Here’s the short version: Bishop Barron leans right. This pains Catholics like Greydanus, who...

The College of Cardinals shocked the world by elevating to the papacy an American. Cardinal Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. Here are my initial thoughts, slightly more than a week out. First, searching for clues about his future by scouring his past, in old comments or Twitter history,...

The Right has blown up these last two weeks. You would think it would be because of the shellacking we took at the polls on Tuesday. But no. It’s because of Nick Fuentes. Actually, that is not true. It was not Fuentes himself that caused the eruption. It was not even Tucker...

At 55 years old, I’m just young enough to have missed the 1960s. That makes Charlie Kirk’s the first high-profile political assassination of my lifetime. I can’t recall any others. Plenty of attempts but no actual assassinations. Unless you count John Lennon in 1980. But that...

What a difference a “vibe shift” makes. That was one of the thoughts that ran through my head when I heard about the transgender-identifying terrorist who murdered Catholic school children as they were worshiping at a Mass opening their school year in Minneapolis. Of course, that...

I don’t buy either the New York Times’ version or the Trump Administration’s about what happened in the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by an ICE agent. This is something the finder of fact—the FBI, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a court of law,...