The comforts of feasting—instant light, warmth, travel, food—have become so common that we talk about being "less materialistic" at Christmas. But God loves feasting
From the archives: Knowing what nuclear weapons can do, and knowing we'll probably never be rid of them, it's clear why military men tell themselves, and everybody else, the bombs will never be used.
"I have wanted to create for myself a devotion to Mary that honors her as woman, as mother, that rejects the wickedness of sexual hatred and sexual fear."
We live in a world and in a Church that are changing at a mad pace—indeed, in the next decade both the United States and American Catholicism may face the greatest challenges either has ever seen.