With regret and reluctance, I write my last column. For 43 years, first under the heading “From the Back Burner”...

More than two centuries ago, before they knew to rifle the bores of muskets and pistols, that is, make them...

Who would have thought that COVID-19 can teach us whether we are socialists? That nasty word that many use interchangeably...

Why do they keep publishing new and improved dictionaries? Why do we wait breathlessly for language specialists to tell us...

In a Catholic newspaper doing what it should be doing — speaking the truth of the Gospel — one more...

People listening to the Gospel Sunday after Sunday begin to notice an odd habit of Jesus, that he often refers...

With good reason newspapers like this may not urge readers to vote for certain persons or parties when an election...

Coronavirus confinement has given us time to step back and contemplate life as we used to know it. It lets...

A commonplace feature of our raspy campaign speech is called the politics of resentment. It explains so much of why...

A fascinating study about imprisonment in our country appeared in the August issue of the Jesuits’ America magazine, overturning many...