What is it about modern church architecture that drives so many Catholics to distraction Admittedly there are some real clunkers out there in Catholicland Typically when I m driving through a new town I can often spot the Catholic church if it s been built somewhere around the 1950s or 196

As a liberal Catholic there is a side of me that delights when conservatives are mauling each other in the press I know it is a sin but it is such a delicious sin and far from my most grievous But the recent intellectual scuffle between legal scholar Doug Kmiec and former Crisis magazine editor

Whatever you think of Barack Obama the guy has got game Three times within the first 32 minutes of his debate with Hillary Clinton last night Obama found a new way to say As the President of the United States I will After Tim Russert obnoxiously tried to pin down Clinton on a pledge to wit

Driving home tonight in a heavy slushy combination of snow and rain I listened to the news on NPR and marveled that a power outage in Miami was causing people serious discomfort no electricity no air conditioning Hard to picture when I am hesitating about stopping for gas which I need badly b

In a few days I head out to the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress a grand carnival of Catholic spirit people ideas books and prayers that span and exceed the various confessional ecclesiological political spectrums of North American Catholicism It is the only annual Catholic

Does anyone really think that it would have been better to have Richard Nixon rather than John Kennedy managing the Cuban Missile Crisis or Stephen Douglas rather than Lincoln confronting the crisis of secession Yet if the American people had made their choices for president in 1960 and 1860 based