The President of the United States came to Georgetown University yesterday to deliver a speech. The sky did not fall.

In the wake of Cardinal Walter Kasper's call for a clarification of the doctrine on indulgences, John O'Malley, S.J., offers this short history.

Have you ever noticed that Jesus begins and ends his public ministry in the wilderness ?

An appreciation of a Christian man of letters.

Pope Benedict XVI is often considered to favor a “hermeneutics of continuity” in his interpretation of Vatican II, and careless commentators have used that term to describe his view. Instead, he calls it the “hermeneutics of reform.”

A celibate spiritual leader who is not a priest, a philosopher with a doctoral degree who is not a professor, Vanier is not easily categorized.