Liber, libera, liberum are the three genders of the Latin adjective for free, as in unencumbered, unrestricted. From them come...

Shrinking one’s carbon footprint should appeal to everybody: using fewer carbon products like petroleum or natural gas or coal. Anyone...

It is not God but we who fear change. Psychologists have found that even teens, who see themselves as cutting...

You know you’ve landed on a distant planet when they tell you labor unions are a “special interest” group. Time...

Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Francisco had an eye-opening essay in America magazine last November. Noting the resistance...

Long before 1642, when this carol appeared in a Lutheran hymnal, people both Christian and otherwise asked the question, “What...

A few years ago a laicized priest friend, the late Joe McGarrity, and I and some others incorporated a non-profit...

Will Pope Francis’s rejection of trickle-down economics challenge voters on election day? When he chided this failed fantasy of wealthy...

Recently I suggested that the main reason for the virulent hostility we see toward both undocumented immigrants and to universal...

By Father Robert Gregorio I knew a rational, accomplished man — let’s call him Bill — who had an illogical contempt for...