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October 2020

October 19, 2020

Catholic Takes on Whether Police Can Be Reformed or Need to Be Defunded, even Abolished

The Biden-Harris campaign has gone to some lengths to distance itself from the "Defund the...

October 16, 2020

VP Mike Pence Sits Down for EWTN Interview with Raymond Arroyo

With less than three weeks before Election Day, Vice President Mike Pence sat down for...

October 16, 2020

Media Spotlight: Judge Amy Coney Barrett and Feminism

It's been interesting to read the different takes in Catholic and secular media on Judge...

October 09, 2020

Brooklyn Diocese Sues Government Over Coronavirus Restrictions

Via Catholic News Service: The Diocese of Brooklyn filed a lawsuit in federal court Oct....

October 09, 2020

Court Docs: New Orleans Priest Recorded Himself in Group Sex on Church Altar.

I was a crime reporter for several years, and covered some pretty horrific and bizarre...

October 08, 2020

How to Vote as a Catholic: It’s Complicated

The Our Sunday Visitor weekly newspaper, where I have the privilege of serving as a...

October 07, 2020

Newsweek Op-Ed Calls on SCOTUS to Defend Religious Freedom of Catholic Adoption Agency

John Bursch, a senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, writes in Newsweek that the U.S....

October 06, 2020

Georgetown Scholar in The New Yorker: The Catholic Right is Embracing Autocracy

Paul Elie, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World...

October 06, 2020

“We’re on the Brink”: Cardinal says Fratelli Tutti is Needed Now for a World in Crisis

I covered a virtual panel dialogue this week for Our Sunday Visitor where several panelists...

October 04, 2020

Five Years Since His U.S. Visit, Pope Francis Presses On

It seems almost hard to imagine in today's COVID-19 era, but five years ago I...

September 2020

September 19, 2020

Don’t Treat Your Neighbor Like A Cartoon Villain.

Some Catholics today see their neighbor like an evil cartoon villain. That's unchristian, and dangerous.

August 2020

August 07, 2020

Your Choice: The Eucharist or the Red Pill.

The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks happened in my second-to-last semester at Hunter College, which...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Catholic Reporter’s Notebook: Black Lives Matter

The first rough draft of the Black Lives Matter story I wrote last week for...

July 17, 2020

Racial Justice Has a Price, but Are Catholics “All Talk” on Combatting Racism?

Last month, I covered a virtual panel discussion on racism organized by Georgetown University's Initiative...

July 05, 2020

“That Was God disguised as Michael Jordan.” A Reflection on “The Last Dance.”

Michael Jordan's final shot with the Chicago Bulls won them their sixth championship. ESPN publicity...

July 01, 2020

Extra Quotes from My Interview with EWTN Radio’s Gloria Purvis on Racism, the Catholic Response to Bigotry and Her Pro-Life Convictions.

Last week, I interviewed Gloria Purvis, the lead host of EWTN Radio's Morning Glory show,...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

On Raymond Arroyo’s EWTN Interview with Donald Trump

Okay, so it wasn't exactly Peter Jennings sitting down to interview Ronald Reagan. But did...

June 24, 2020

Gloria Purvis of EWTN Tells Our Sunday Visitor “Racism is Demonic.”

I had a GREAT interview this week for Our Sunday Visitor with Gloria Purvis, the...

June 22, 2020

Rooting Out Racism Will Be Difficult.

I don't exactly have a green thumb. If potted plants could file charges, I'd likely...

June 18, 2020

A Q&A with Lamar Hunt, Jr. of the Kansas City Chiefs Family.

Every month, I have the privilege of interviewing Catholic "news-makers" - business leaders, bishops, entrepreneurs,...

June 16, 2020

How Black Catholic Leaders Have Been Responding to the George Floyd Video.

Since late May, I've interviewed and spoken with several black Catholic leaders in the course...

June 05, 2020

Real Talk: White American Catholics Have a Racism Problem.

This may shock you, though it sadly shouldn't: White American Catholics can be racist. Yes,...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

After “AKA Jane Roe,” An Examination of Conscience Is In Order

"What we did with Norma was highly unethical. The jig is up." That eye-opening comment...

April 2020

April 11, 2020

A Former Court Reporter’s Take On The Cardinal Pell Case

There may well have been too much reasonable doubt to sustain Cardinal George Pell's conviction....

April 03, 2020

No, God Did Not Send Coronavirus To Punish Us For Sin.

You can tell a lot about a person based on how they understand God. Whether...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

Coronavirus Is Serious, So Stop Messing Around

I had a great squad leader when I was a young U.S. Army infantryman. In...

February 2020

February 21, 2020

Pornography is Everywhere, so Why Can’t We Talk About the Addiction?

I recently wrote a collection of personal vignettes from people I interviewed who described how...

January 2020

January 16, 2020

A Love Letter to the Blessed Sacrament.

First things first; Happy 2020 everyone! I took a couple of weeks off from...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

2019 In Review: Examining Immigration, the Virgin Martyrs, Mission Work, the Amazon Synod and More.

Every month, I'm fortunate that I get to explore an important topical issue in depth...

December 29, 2019

What Is A Saint?

"Can someone be uncanonized? Asking for a friend." A Twitter follower asked that question in...