Mother Seton and the American Crisis
by William Doino Jr.If American Catholics are looking for a Christian role model during these turbulent times, Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton—the first American-born saint—is a wonderful choice. Continue Reading »
If American Catholics are looking for a Christian role model during these turbulent times, Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton—the first American-born saint—is a wonderful choice. Continue Reading »
Our Lady of Guadalupe's appearance to Juan Diego is a crucial moment in the history of the United States—and key to reconciling our political and cultural divisions today. Continue Reading »
The Church and her saints tell us that we are all converts—indeed, that we should repent and convert every day. Continue Reading »
Conversion—not ecclesial nativism—is the American Catholic tradition. Continue Reading »
A lesson for Catholics in the U. S. from a classic history of the struggle for control of the American continent. Continue Reading »
Any Catholic who rejects Catholic teaching, or who technically accepts it but minimizes it to the point of insignificance, is not a “moderate” Catholic but a dissenter, or one seeking approval from the world (a temptation Our Lord warns against)—and should be identified as such. Continue Reading »
What went wrong with the public life of American Catholics? How far back does the problem go? Continue Reading »
The rightful place of the Catholic is always alongside the poor, the marginalized, the excluded—all the more so because Catholics have traditionally been overrepresented among the poor, the marginalized, and the excluded in American society. Continue Reading »
We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of many that December 3 marked the bicentenary of the death of John Carroll, one of the greatest who ever lived among us. The adjective “first” is applied to John Carroll more . . . . Continue Reading »
In this insightful, well-researched and thought-provoking book, Todd Scribner presents a compelling story of the development of neoconservative Catholic thought in the 1970s and 1980s. The story covers a wide spectrum of subjects, including church structure, secular political history, Catholic social thought, and public policy. Continue Reading »
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