Stephen P. White

Abraham Lincoln delivered his First Inaugural Address at a time of unprecedented division and strife in our nation. Open hostilities…

The trick for a politician like Biden is to stick to the words people like while avoiding those words that remind people that a young and innocent life is being snuffed out.

Organizational reforms are important, but conversion – and evangelization – are much more essential.

That there is opposition to Pope Francis in the Church is as obvious, even as it is difficult to define just what constitutes opposition

This is the heart of the Good News: Hope, born of faith, frees us for love.

Legal reforms need to work, but they also need to be seen to be working.

Most Catholics simply don’t know what all this talk of “synodality” is supposed to mean.

As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI nears the end of his long and extraordinary life, the tussling over his legacy has already begun in earnest.

One of the challenges preventing a wider reception of the Church’s modern social teaching is that there is some confusion about just what Catholic social teaching is.

If those directing the Synod at every level of the Church present it in worldly terms – political, bureaucratic, ideological terms – then it will surely become merely that.

The consequences for the Church of ultra-mundane and aggressively banal liturgies are impossible to deny.

We rejoice during Advent as an expression of gratitude for the wondrous and unmerited gift of the Incarnation. But our rejoicing is not only a response to the gift of salvation; it is an imitation of the Father, who rejoices over us.