Our Widening Embrace
[Note: Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve approached three periodicals with strong progressive, social justice slants — one of them Christian, the other two more mainstream — with this piece....
View ArticleNow in Commonweal: Paul VI’s Populorum Progressio at 50
Next month will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Populorum Progressio, which is subtitled “On the Development of Peoples.” George Weigel glibly — and falsely —...
View ArticleNew OSV article on the new Lectionary Supplement
This month the Church in the United States receives a new liturgical book, the Lectionary for Mass Supplement. Since the current Lectionary was published (between 1998 and 2002), several new elements...
View Article“The new go-to primer”: Review in The Journal of Church and State
My book, Struggle, Condemnation, Vindication: John Courtney Murray’s Journal toward Vatican II, is the subject of a substantial review in the spring 2017 issue of the Journal of Church and State. I’m...
View ArticleNew in The Priest: My article on preaching on Catholic social teaching
My article “Preaching on Catholic Social Teaching” appears in the July issue of The Priest. It’s a big one (seven pages in the print mag, though with photos), but was thoroughly fascinating and fun to...
View ArticleAnd now for something a little different…New article in VFW Magazine
Faith, theology, and church matters have always been the focus of my freelance work. But history has long been a side interest of mine. So earlier this year I decided to try exploring a bit in that...
View ArticleSome new articles
This morning I updated the list of my published articles on the ARTICLES tab to include a few that have been published in the last couple of months: “In 1918, this American Catholic accepted a death...
View ArticleCelebrating life at a Pennsylvania parish: my new article in The Priest
Every year on January 22, anti-abortion folks mark the anniversary of the 1972 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. The Catholic Church in the U.S. observes it formally as a Day of Prayer for the Legal...
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