Hobbits, as everyone now knows, are little people, with lackadaisical ways and furry feet.

In July Fr William Rowe 73 pastor of the St Mary Parish in southeast Illinois received an email from his bishop Edward Braxton telling him he had been removed as pastor and taking away his faculties to say Mass and offer the sacraments Most likely Rowe had seen it coming Braxton had complain

The liturgical creativity inspired by Vatican II brought new intimacy to the Mass.

Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson is a profound analysis of Lord Acton’s 1887 maxim: power corrupts.

Declining standards make getting caught the primary offense

I live in what is one of the more wealthy neighborhoods in the world By wealth I don rsquo t necessarily mean the income of the rich persons who live in the all the local apartment houses which block out our sky but the New York institutions clustered here that pull together a steady traffic of th

William Calley is still alive.

On E. B. White and Henry David Thoreau.

As everyone who follows conflicts in the church knows there has been a nasty fight going on between some members of the hierarchy and the majority of professional Catholic theologians mdash those who teach the university courses and write the articles for mainstream or liberal Catholic periodicals

Robert F. Drinan's unscheduled retirement