An Unsentimental Family
The Holy Family's faith is neither sentimental nor easy nor even stable.
Tradition and the Puzzling Gospel of St. John
Tradition may be self-correcting.
Luke’s Lessons for Living amid Tragedy
On this feast day, St. Luke can guide us through a history tinged with disaster.
Bishop Barnes, Anglican Eugenicist
How could Bishop Barnes, a Cambridge mathematician, have gone so badly wrong?
How We Think
We cannot separate our thinking from our interactions with a community because thought isn’t merely analytical problem-solving.
Acts and Eugenics
Luke's book of the Acts of the Apostles teaches us what it means that "God shows no partiality."
Another Angle on Cradles
The question is whether we can learn to use religious language as a form of self-emptying, not self-justification.
Catholics and prayer in public schools
The conjunction of two recent articles on American Catholic history, specifically the history of prayer in schools, provides a timely warning for church involvement in politics.