Have you noticed a growing polarization in almost every area of human conduct? For example, politics as the art of compromise seems a reli...

Readings: Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-17; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30 One hot summer day in 1941, in the infamous death camp of Auschwitz, ten p...

One of the more interesting, if not particularly important, Roman archaeological mysteries has been the identification of the exact spot whe...

Unless you've spent the last few months on one of Jupiter's moons, you've at least heard of the now notorious Obama-care mandat...

I am not a libertarian, but every once in a while a libertarian will say something interesting and insightful. The following interview of J...

" If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the  fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet."   [Proverbs 29:9] The foll...

The Good News of the Gospel encounters a lot of competition these days. Open the morning paper, browse the headlines on the web, watch the e...

Rev. Gerard Ellard, S.J., Jesuit priest, medievalist, and liturgist, was a major player in the early days of the liturgical movement in the ...

The current administration and its allies have been talking a lot about a supposed "War on Women," but if one looks at the numbers...

As I mentioned in a previous post, Dear Diane and I returned from a two-week trip to Ireland (our first) about two weeks ago. We had a delig...

Life, this remarkable gift with which we've been blessed, often seems to be marked less by who we think we are or what we have done as i...