In 1983, Cardinal Joseph Bernadin proposed the image of a seamless garment for a Catholic approach to what has been termed “the life issues.” In a widely quoted sentence, Bernadin argued that “the spectrum of life cuts across the issues of genetics, abortion, capital punishment,...

One constant has endured through 52 years of American political and cultural upheavals: the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., has been a joyful, ebullient event. Other protests, fueled by outrage or resentment, push forward with angry shouting and can court trouble with law enforcement....

Advent afficionados likely have heard Creator of the Stars of Night on recording or at a concert, or perhaps read it in a prayer book. Translated into English by the Anglican clergyman J.M. Neale in 1852, the original hymn entitled Conditor Alme Siderum, composed in the seventh century, had...

If someone said to me, “The dogma lives loudly in you,” as Senator Dianne Feinstein famously said to Judge Amy Coney Barrett during her 2017 confirmation hearings for a seat on the US Seventh Court of Appeals, I would take it as a high compliment. Of course, Feinstein, wielding...

Lent is a discipline, a practice, an exercise. The Collect of Ash Wednesday describes it with martial images: Lent is a “campaign of Christian service” in which “we take up battle against spiritual evils…armed with weapons of self-restraint.” Since exercises and...