Complex cultural shifts led to a more secular U.S. But Calvinism's acute irony is that once the essence of faith was worn down, the habits of faith lingered and Calvinism became reduced to hyperindividualistic ethics.
Prophets call a people back to their truest selves, to the roots of their tradition, to what is best in their past and what is needed now and in their future. Archbishop Borys Gudziak is prophetic in this way.
Last week more than 30 bishops and cardinals joined with theologians, journalists and other Catholic leaders at Fordham University for the fourth "Way Forward" ecclesial gathering.
In our time, in the Spirit of our times, we have seen buried in the hearts of the popes who have gone before us their personal attempts to bring us through what the era demands but which we cannot see from long-range vision.
Trump is kissing up to Putin and denigrating Zelenskyy, imperiling NATO's future. Where are the Republican senators willing to defend the greatest bipartisan foreign policy success in American history, made possible by one of their own?
Bishop Robert Barron was "delighted" to attend President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress and celebrate a private Mass for lawmakers, he said on a lengthy social media video about his "thrilling" trip.
A school-age child died of measles. I am not speaking of the recent case in Lubbock, Texas. This was 62 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, and she was my sister.
