The Synod on Synodality approaches its conclusionRussell Shaw
Participants in the Synod on Synodality spent two days before the start of its final session in a closed retreat that ended with a "penitential liturgy." The synod office also provided the participants ...
Election year manners Russell Shaw
"A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic, but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer and remains at large." That ...
Supreme Court previewRussell Shaw
When the Supreme Court opens for business again Oct. 7, it will have before it for argument and eventual decision in the term ahead at least three cases directly involving the protection of children and ...
A new look at the Synod on Synodality Russell Shaw
Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian communication guru of the last century who was probably best known for saying, "The medium is the message." As the second and last session of the Synod on Synodality draws ...
The meaning of the Assumption nowRussell Shaw
"By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate ...
God's plan and American politics Russell Shaw
A chorus of populist theologizing greeted the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Much of it was along the lines of "Considering that the shot missed killing him by only a couple of inches, God must ...
Two years after DobbsRussell Shaw
Two years ago, the Supreme Court vindicated the right to life by reversing a 1973 ruling which abruptly asserted the existence of a constitutional right to abortion that no one had ever previously heard ...
Patriotism, then and now Russell Shaw
Here to salute the 4th of July are a few troubled thoughts on patriotism. Orestes Brownson, the most prominent American Catholic public intellectual of 19th century, discerned a divinely bestowed mission ...
