The news that Cardinal McCarrick has been credibly accused of molesting a young man—and the subsequent revelations that “everybody knew” about the cardinal’s homosexual activities—have raised new and important questions about the silence of other American bishops. What did they know, and when did they know it? How did the cardinal advance through the ecclesiastical ranks…
Bishop Silvio José Báez, auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Managua, Nicaragua was attacked by a mob while defending the Basilica of San Sebastián in Diriamba. He posted his harrowing story on Twitter along with pictures of his bloodied wounds. According to Vatican News, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes of Managua and Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag…
You might have seen the cartoon: two cavemen sitting outside their cave knapping stone tools. One says to the other: ‘Something’s just not right – our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free-range, and yet nobody lives past 30.’ This cartoon reflects a very common view of ancient lifespans…
Here’s something that I didn’t know before I read the rather ambitious New York Times feature that ran with this headline: “Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.” Apparently, if you ask young Americans why they are not choosing to have babies – even the number of babies that they say they would like to have – you get lots of answers about economics and trends in what could be called “secular” culture…
It’s dangerous to call a performer a national treasure, for too often the term is used to imply something precious that should be taken out and displayed only on special occasions. So I won’t call Chip Taylor a national treasure, if only because, after more than 50 years as a singer and hit songwriter, he continues to make vital music…
“We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Our journey through life can be compared to a desert scene. We are all standing in a huge, modern, air-conditioned airport, peering anxiously through the plate glass, waiting for a jet plane to fly us to… Continue reading Camels or Jet Planes?
A country delineates itself from others by means of its borders. Borders have been on the minds of people everywhere in the past months because of the issue of migration. Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, seeking a better home. Many are refugees fleeing hardship and the threat of death. As migrants come up against the borders, world leaders are struggling to know what to do, and there is serious disagreement.God’s Word draws our attention to another kind of border, not the type that separates nations, but the ones that divide the human heart: borders of