Raymond J. de Souza

Even for spoiled royals, a wedding is emphatically not a private matter. Continue Reading »

The task for the human fraternity project of Pope Francis might be best understood as re-tracing the path from Cain and Abel to Joseph and his brothers. Continue Reading »

Father Ignatius and Harry found, across the centuries, that their lives would not be determined by the accidents of birth. Continue Reading »

Trump understood better than the Republican establishment he replaced that judicial appointments are of supreme importance to pro-life and religious liberty voters. Continue Reading »

It may be that Fratelli Tutti opposes the use of force in international relations altogether; it’s a question in need of further explication. Continue Reading »

Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on “fraternity and social friendship,” will generate work for theologians for some time. Continue Reading »

Good and evil are so intertwined that sometimes it is hard to recognize which is which. Continue Reading »

Pope Francis has less to worry about from “enemies” than he does from his “friends.” Continue Reading »

Though the guilty did not suffer for far too long, now some innocents suffer too much in the correction. Continue Reading »

Twenty years ago today, on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Richard John Neuhaus was ordained a Catholic priest. Cardinal John O’Connor ordained Father Neuhaus in 1991 at St. Joseph’s Seminary, just north of the city in Dunwoodie. Exactly one year previous, on September 8, 1990, Cardinal O’Connor had received Richard into full communion with the Catholic Church, in a ceremony held in the private chapel of the cardinal’s residence… . Continue Reading »