The Church

What Catholicism Is: an election-year reminder

Waiting With Joyful Hope This article originally appeared in the November-December, 1999 issue of Catholic Dossier magazine

Deliverance is Coming Written and posted on my Blog in 2002 in the midst of the sex abuse scandals

A Brewing Revolt? Inside the Vatican, January 1998. My report on the Always our Children fiasco, the scandalous document on homosexuality from bureaucrats at the US Bishops conference in the name of the bishops

The Tragedy of John Geoghan My parish priest when I was a child, the pixie of a man who was a monster

Fire in the East For Catholic World Report, 1993. I love this story of how God’s Providence worked, stretching through three generations, using two men, one very young and one very old in restoring the Faith to an Eastern Bloc nation. I felt privileged to write it.

How Bishops Discourage Vocations (and the Key to Attracting Them) for Inside the Vatican. Status Ecclesiae Aug.-Sept. 2005

Master of Deception for Messenger of Saint Anthony, May, 2006, on the Da Vinci Code.

The Primacy of Jesus, the Primacy of Love for Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae, April 2006

Faith vs. Nonsense For Inside the Vatican. Status Ecclesiae, May 2006

When Catholics Behave Badly For Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae,
March 2006

33 Years: The different dimension of Political Correctness For Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae, February 2006

The Obedience Test For Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae, January 2006. This made some people mad.

Lay Mendicants For Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae, December 2005. Also, why there is a PayPal button on this site!

Conscience and the Dictatorship of Relativism Of the modern thought which claims to set people free but actually enslaves them; For Inside the Vatican, analysis. Also with a sidebar by Peter Kreeft. November 2005

'Gay' Priest: An Oxymoron For Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae, November 2005.

Jesus 'Über Alles': Has Germany finally found redemption from its past? For Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae, October  2005.

Lieber Bruder Joseph, Beloved Benedict For Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae, July 2005.

An American assumes Benedict's previous post in the Vatican For Inside the Vatican, June 2005.

The Thomas Reese Affair For Inside the Vatican, June 2005.

Totus Tuus: The Source of John Paul's Greatness For Inside the Vatican, Status Ecclesiae, April 2005.

The Pope and the Young: What's not to Love? April 2005.