Kathryn Jean Lopez
Kathryn Jean Lopez is the former editor and current editor-at-large of the widely read and cited daily webzine, National Review Online, where she has written and edited for more than a decade. She is also a Senior Fellow at the National Review Institute.
An award-winning opinion journalist who has been praised for her “editorial daring,” Lopez is also a nationally syndicated columnist with United Media’s Newspaper Enterprise Association.
Lopez’s work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Human Life Review, First Things, and Stars and Stripes, and on the websites of the New York Times, CNN, and other international publications.
She writes frequently for a variety of Catholic publications, including Our Sunday Visitor, and is a columnist for The National Catholic Register and the Knights of Columbus’s Headline Bistro.
Lopez’s work has been referenced widely, and has even been cited in the pages of Playboy (they were not fans). She has been recognized by Feminists for Life and Manhattan’s Midtown Pregnancy Support Center for her culture-of-life commentary and reporting.
Lopez is a frequent guest on national and international radio and television programs, from PBS and CNN to EWTN and Vatican Radio. She has been a guest host on William J. Bennett’s nationally syndicated morning show.
In 2002, Lopez and National Review Online were awarded the Center for Military Readiness Spotlight Award for national-defense coverage.
Commonly known as “K-Lo” on the Internet, on talk radio, and around Washington, Lopez speaks frequently on faith and public life, the dignity of human life, and feminism, among other topics. She has addressed audiences at events sponsored by Legatus, the Knights of Columbus, the American Political Science Association, the Heritage Foundation, the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, the Milken Institute, Lincoln Center, and the National Press Club, and has spoken on the campuses of Harvard, Yale, the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Ave Maria University.
Lopez is a graduate of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she studied philosophy and politics. She has been a fellow at the Claremont Institute and serves on the Archdiocese of New York’s Pro-Life Commission.
She can be found (for better or worse) on Twitter and Facebook. She invites e-mails here.
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Rome, Italy — I left the country the other day, and ever since I logged on across the pond, the talk of Facebook seems to be the new algorithms that limit the number of people you see on your news feed. ... -
Parenting Realities in Virtual Times
Naomi Schaefer Riley has a lovely and important new book Be the Parent, Please on the practicalities of the dangers of so much of the technology that children today are inundated with. Frankly, as adults overwhelmed by it – it’s ... -
Some of What I Saw at the March for Life
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s grave Roe v. Wade decision. On Friday, over 100,000 of us were on the mall, marching up to the Hill to Supreme Court, emphasizing the urgency of bringing love to this ... -
Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (Jan. 19. 2018 -- March for Life Day)
1. From my interview with actress Patricia Heaton on abortion and Down Syndrome and more. 2. Mary Eberstadt on how Eminem and Gandhi are right. 3. Emma Green in The Atlantic on science and abortion. 4. Ashley McGuire on protecting pregnancy-resource centers 5. Dr. Grazie ... -
Twelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (Jan. 11, 2018)
1. The CCP has demolished a Christian church — “which was built with nearly $3 million in contributions from local worshippers in one of China’s poorest regions.” https://t.co/4noVxte7Gv — Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) January 11, 2018 2. From Open Doors: The 50 countries where ... -
Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (Jan. 9, 2018)
1. If you pray, keep this girl and her family in your prayer: Please pray for an 11yr old girl w/ terminal cancer & her family. She renewed her baptismal promises & is anointed but is sad to leave her family… — Rev. Daniel ... -
In Search of Peace
‘In the midst of secular Christmas, with Frosty the Snowman and Santa, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Bing Crosby dreaming of a white Christmas, we want the wonderful story of the Christ child born in a stable, heralded by angels, ... -
At New Year’s, a ‘Chalk Warrior’ Mothers a Culture in Need of Such Grace
‘I walked down this path lonely, sad, and hopeless,” self-described “chalk warrior” T explains, in words on pavement off the East River in Harlem. When you hear her message, though, she’s more of a sister walking alongside strangers who ... -
Your Chance to Support National Review’s Mission
Editor’s Note: As part of National Review Institute’s End-of-Year Appeal, NRI fellows are sharing words of wisdom and inspiration. Today, Kathryn Jean Lopez explains NRI’s vital role in focusing attention on the most important issues of our ... -
A Culture in Need of that Manger Scene
Upon news of a Christmas variety show benefiting Planned Parenthood, my National Review colleague Kevin Williamson tweeted: “You’re getting the story all wrong . . . It was the grave that was empty, not the manger.” The reference, of course, is to ... -
Timmy and Matt Lauer, at Advent
‘He was a seeker.” It was Thursday morning at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the feast day of St. Andrew, the Apostle. At the 7 a.m. Mass, Cardinal Timothy Dolan was preaching about how, once Andrew encountered Jesus, he knew had ... -
A Seal Breaks Open: The Reckoning in Hollywood and America
‘It seems undeniable at this point that Hugh Hefner’s death broke open some sort of seal.” My former colleague at National Review magazine, Ian Tuttle, tweeted this the other day, capturing the avalanche of accusations and confessions, since around ... -
Moore Need for Conversion
Two things in the headlines this week should be like sirens calling us to conversion. The first was the largest mass shooting in a church in U.S. history. The evil that was done to the people of First Baptist ... -
Adopting Caricatures
Earlier this week, Republicans tried again on a tax plan, this time including the adoption tax credit. Many had raised their objections to their excluding it in the first place, including our own Ramesh Ponnuru and David French. Here’s ... -
Bishop Barron and Women Who Make the World Better
‘Show, don’t tell,” Bishop Robert Barron emphasizes, trying to do his part to lead by example. As journalist John L. Allen Jr. writes in the book they’ve collaborated on, To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the ... -
‘Weariness, Frayed Tempers, and Forgetfulness’
Clearwater, Fla. — According to Google Maps, I’m 147 miles from the University of Florida in Gainesville, but that didn’t keep people here from being on edge as a white supremacist was prepared to speak there. A protester threw “at ... -
Say Yes: Religious Vocations and ‘Giving God Permission’
It’s the month of October, traditionally dedicated to Mary. A new book by Dominican sisters says that Mary’s Yes Continues: Religious Vocations in the New Millennium, as it promotes vocations to religious life. Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, O.... -
The Miserable Playboy Legacy
‘Sex for me is . . . perhaps the single greatest humanizing force on this earth,” Hugh Hefner said during a 1974 interview with CBS, sitting alongside Protestant theologian Harvey Cox. “It would be a rather sad planet if there weren’t two sexes. ... -
Forgive Us, Father, Our Will to Destroy
‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they do” came to mind after, I confess, I’d felt some unholy anger toward people who vandalized a Saint Junipero Serra statue in California recently. It was a somewhat familiar scene ... -
Saving Marriage -- One Couple at a Time
So often when marriage is in the news it’s political or scandal or bad news. So I’m very excited to be able to highlight tomorrow night a couple that is helping couples not only get and stay married ... -
America Welcomes Immigrants
I’m just off a trans-Atlantic crossing. You don’t realize how moving walking to the top of a ship for a pre-dawn arrival in New York City will be until you have the opportunity to do it. After a ... -
A Break from the Total Eclipse of America’s Heart
The solar eclipse this August was a marvel. After all, people were looking up and not at screens! There was a widespread sense of wonder at creation at a time when it’s far from a given that we are ... -
A Man Who Does More for the Korean People than Just Worry
‘Please, don’t tell me more.” It’s become a common plea if not a refrain as I encounter more and more people choosing to disengage from watching the seemingly constant car crash that is our politics and culture. Apparently ... -
Two Million for Teleskov, Karamdes: Knights of Columbus Take a Lead in Rebuilding Christianity in Iraq
St. Louis, Mo. – The survival of Christianity in the Middle East hangs in the balance, Carl Anderson said today at the annual convention of the Knights of Columbus he heads. “They have every right to live. And we are determined ... -
Got Opportunity?
“Opportunity is built explicitly into the American social contract,” J. D. Vance, author of the best-selling Hillbilly Elegy, writes in his introduction to the “2017 Index on Culture and Opportunity,” released by the Heritage Foundation this month. He highlights the bipartisan ... -
Enough with ‘That Same Old Love’
Ben Sasse preemptively described his book on our adolescent culture as not an old man yelling at the kids on his lawn. And I’m about to do the same about this column. It’s going to sound at first ... -
Freedom — in a Cloister
Linden, Va. — About an hour and a half away from the White House, a cloistered nun tells me — from behind the grille that separates her physically from the world (even from a friendly visitor like me) — about what freedom she ... -
Learning Hospitality with the Sisters of St. Bridget
Darien, Conn. — There are six sisters of the Order of the Most Holy Savior in the United States, and not one of them was born in the United States. Also known as the Sisters of St. Bridget, or the Bridgettines, ... -
Fourteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (June 23, 2017)
1. Two brave women write in the New York Times. 2. Christianity Today: Evangelicals Tell Trump: Don’t Deport Christians to Face Genocide in Iraq Catholic bishops ask the same. 3. Melinda Henneberger on D.C. lobbying for a genocidal regime. 4. Sohrab Ahmari ... -
Mad about Maddi
In a sea of graduation celebrations these weeks, Maddi Runkles stands out. Maddi Runkles isn’t the name of a school, and she isn’t a student who marched with her Christian school. She’s a young mom who had ... -
Fatherhood as Heroism
‘My Dad modeled heroic love for us,” Mary Connolly Breiner writes about her father, Myles Connolly, in the preface of a new edition of his novel Dan England and the Noonday Devil. As Breiner puts it: Dan is a single ... -
Trump, Paris, and Us
Well, we now know Donald Trump is not mayor of Paris. This is one of the many outtakes from the past week that further distract us from actually making our lives better, working for the common good. The president made ... -
10 Things That Caught My Eye This Week
1. Lord have mercy. UPDATE: Death toll rises to 28 after gunmen attack bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt https://t.co/U69w8IkTt6 pic.twitter.com/Z3CGPdWbjZ — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) May 26, 2017 God protect the Coptic Christians. 2. “My friend ... -
Kate O’Beirne, Gifted Gift Giver until the End and Even Now
‘I’m sad this is so hard for Mommy. I think it is even harder for Mrs. O’Beirne.” That’s my memory of a young girl’s wise observation as she watched the sadness of her parents and other ... -
Ten Things that Aren't about Donald Trump or James Comey that Caught My Eye Today (May 18, 2017)
Consider joining the final in a series of three adoption discussions co-sponsored by the National Review Institute and the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., on Monday night. Details here. Watch the first night here and the second night ... -
Come Talk about Adoption with Us Monday Night in D.C.
cic-adoption.jpg Dr. Grazie Christie, a radiologist in Miami, and a senior policy adviser with the Catholic Association, writes a little about adoption as she and her husband have experienced it: Sometimes we are praised for our generosity, but we ... -
Remembering Kate O'Beirne, on EWTN & More
I’m very grateful that Raymond Arroyo had Ramesh and I on his most recent show talking about our beloved friend Kate O’Beirne: By now you may have gotten the chance to read some of the 17,000 words friends and ... -
Kate the Great’s Eternal Analysis
When I set out to write about my friend Kate O’Beirne on my phone, we are immediately in emphasis mode, as she was KATE THE GREAT in my address book. So when I go to write her name, it’... -
Remembering Kate O'Beirne -- A Place for Stories and Other Memories
You may have read our 17,000-word start (in addition to Ramesh’s first breaking of the sad news – devastating to so many of us who loved her — among others; a short try in tribute from me here) in tribute to ... -
Never Again and the Persecuted Today
‘If ‘never again’ means anything, I had to be here today.” These words came from a rabbi, who invoked the memory of the Holocaust, standing among Christians outside a church in New York on Good Friday evening. This Catholic church, ... -
Let’s Get to Know Syrians
Sometimes chemical weapons and missiles have an odd way of uniting people, however briefly. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, together, for just a moment. That should give us pause. There was a day — I was there — when commuting New Yorkers ... -
A Year after Her Death, Mother Angelica’s Living Legacy
Mother Angelica, the founder of a world-ranging media operation, EWTN, has been dead for a year. But she’s still changing lives. Her biographer, Raymond Arroyo, can testify to it — as he witnesses to it with his own life. Mother ... -
Living on a Prayer
Saint Patrick’s Day this year marks the one-year anniversary of a little bit of a miracle. It was on March 17, 2016, that then–Secretary of State John Kerry surprised the world — and not least, the activists who were pleading for ... -
A Man Who Knew Lent and Easter
Timothy Fuerst recently died after a fight with cancer. He was a father and husband and a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. I never met him, but simply reading about him makes me want to be ... -
White House Strategists Are People, Too
I used to host a radio show with Steve Bannon. Yes, that Steve Bannon. It was a Catholic radio show, and we talked about life and faith and how you integrate the two. It was weekly over the course of ... -
Gosnell, Game Changer
‘You can’t unlearn,” Ann McElhinney insists, referring to what she and her husband, Phelim McAleer, refer to in the subtitle of their new book, Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer. In April 2013, the Irish-born ... -
Silence May Be What We Need
If you know anything about Christian persecution — its history or its modern-day reality — you’ve probably heard the quote from Tertullian about the blood of martyrs being the seed of the church. So then what of the non-martyrs? The ones ... -
Radical Hospitality and Generosity, Bipartisan Values
‘Radical hospitality and generosity.” That’s a phrase I heard last fall from Carter Snead, a law professor at Notre Dame, and I can’t get it out of my head. It’s an attractive phrase. It draws you in. ... -
The Gifts We Too Often Fail to Give
‘Every child, and most wives, have experienced the gift obviously purchased at the airport, in spastic response to the sudden memory of a birthday or an anniversary,” William F. Buckley wrote in a column for Playboy magazine on “What we ... -
How’s Your Faith?
How’s your faith?” It’s a question President George W. Bush asked David Gregory, then the host of Meet the Press on NBC. It’s not a typical question from the president of the United States, but then again ...
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Science Supports Life
Science begs us to tell the truth about life and death and the misery we unnecessarily inflict. “Until birth, you guys. Until BIRTH. Where’s the ‘science’ supporting that??” That’s how one young commentator responded to an NBC news “... -
Losing Our Religion and Our Humanity
Cain and Abel and the Tower of Babel: These are far from the most inspiring of biblical images. And so they are the ones that jump out at you upon reading Pope Francis’s recent message on “fake news” and ... -
At the March for Life, Overcoming Darkness
Washington, D.C. — “We shall overcome,” Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan said, invoking not only the late slain Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. but the gospel for which he lived and died. Dolan was in the Basilica of the National Shrine ... -
Turn a Light On
By the time you read this column, there will no doubt be some new President Donald J. Trump tweet or utterance — on-the-record or leaked — that will have the media and country debating all atwitter which one or another of his ... -
Paul Ryan to Address Next Week's March for Life
Next week is the March for Life Week in Washington, D.C. A number of conferences, events, and rallies surround the annual March for Life, marking the Supreme Court’s grave Roe v. Wade decision in January 1973. The March will ... -
Living and Dying with Heroic Virtue
Yulan, N.Y. — A family member, I think one of James Joseph Hanson’s sisters, held up six-month-old baby Lucas for all the packed church to see. They were, as it happens, right in front of the Baby Jesus in ... -
Twelve Things that Caught My Eye (Jan 3, 2018)
Happy New Year, a few days in. There’s something beautiful and intimidating, too, about the freshness of these days. (On this kind of note, I like this, from a friend from college days.) 1. First of all, something I could ... -
‘He Looked Up’: A Franciscan Friar’s Gift to Us
‘He looked up.” The homilist at Father Andrew Apostoli’s funeral Mass was describing what was different about the Franciscan friar’s life — radically so, when you think about, if you focus on this looking up business. It’s such ... -
The Call to Adoption
‘Adoption doesn’t just fall out of the sky,” Jaymie Stuart Wolfe writes in Adoption: Room for One More? “Every action that is taken flows from extended reflection and discernment,” she adds. Wolfe, herself an adoptive mother, calls adoption “deeply ... -
Loving Dudley: Jen Gann’s Story of Having a Son with Cystic Fibrosis
Jen Gann describes herself as “a mother whose biggest mistake was becoming one.” She describes Dudley: “My son has blue eyes, curly blond hair, slightly crooked teeth. He’s daring, most of the time. He’s afraid of doctors and ... -
Jesus in the Middle East
It’s that time of year when, in the middle of Santa Claus festivities, unlikely gestures might include a hat tip to a baby born in Bethlehem or to his mother of Nazareth. This year, as Christians enter into the ... -
Living Fearlessly after Sutherland Springs
The first thing you notice when you fly into Texas in recent days is the flags at half-staff. The second thing I noticed is churches with doors open. In Dallas, where I happened to be a few days after the ... -
Ten Things that Caught My Eye (Recently ... This Week)
I’ve been on the road for a few days or weeks or months (all of the above) and found the backend of posting harder than it should be. But a few things that deserve links to before the week ... -
When the ‘Dogma Lives Loudly’ within One — What Judge Amy Barrett Can Teach Us
Dianne Feinstein is co-author of Nine and Counting, signed by “the Women of the Senate” at the time (106th Congress, 2001), which had partners including the Girl Scouts of America. It belongs in a library of much advice to women from ... -
On Jeff Flake, and Looking Beyond Politics for a Better Politics
‘Crème de la crème of Washington, D.C., insiderdom.” That’s how someone in a newspaper column described Kate O’Beirne, the Washington editor of National Review and panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang. It was about 20 years ... -
From Hollywood to the Grotto of Massabielle
Lourdes, France — Brad Pitt appears to be the hero of the Hollywood story, having done what many were afraid to do: stand up to Harvey Weinstein. The scandal was a far cry from the peace and dignity of Lourdes, France, ... -
A Lonely Gabriel and Us
Fátima, Portugal – “It was kind of heartbreaking to see this lonely little figure who was just suffering on his own.” In his first hours into a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Fátima, Bishop David O’Connell, born ... -
Why the Rosary, Why Now?
For the month of October, Gretchen Crowe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor’s “Newsweekly,” has issued a month-long “Rosary Challenge” to encourage people to pray the prayer daily. This is the message of Fatima, which marks its 100th anniversary this ... -
Father Tom and the Full Christian Witness
Three trees were planted on a concrete island in the 1990s, in what seems like the busiest intersection in London. At first, when my Uber driver dropped me off a few blocks down, I thought it had to be some ... -
A People of Life
Even as we were not far from the Twin Towers and the smoke — the smell of barbecue, to be completely honest – would soon reach our offices at National Review in New York, the devastation of 9/11 began to penetrate with some ... -
A Church Conquers Harvey
They are “A People for others,” it says outside St. Ignatius Church in Houston. Even, as it happens, when they are under water. “It’s devastating. . . . It is just unbelievable. Everything is under water. And I do mean EVERYTHING.” You ... -
‘Aleppo Awaits You’
‘Aleppo Awaits You” isn’t the ultimate exit strategy for anyone tired of politics in the United States, the ultimate tactic for distancing oneself from the Confederacy. The father of the city, Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart, in fact, doesn’t ... -
You, Too, Can Help Save Iraqi Christians
St. Louis, Mo. — Maybe it was the Iraqi-born bishop praying the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke. Maybe it was being in the same venue here where (Saint) Pope John Paul II spoke in 1999. Maybe it ... -
Quitting ‘Angry and Dumb’
‘If we fill our heads with poison and junk, we make ourselves angry and dumb.” Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said this during a talk at the recent Napa Institute on how to live in and make the world ... -
Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (June 20, 2017)
1.A beautiful life on this earth ended yesterday. George Weigel wrote about Fr. Arne Panula here at Easter time. 2. An interview with Robert P. George by my friend Matthew Bunson. 3. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ recent TED Talk on facing the future ... -
Calvary, The Donald, and Hope
‘Poland is VERY pretty at night, and the Polish people are nice too. Now I know why both Hitler and Stalin invaded #Poland in WWII.” I confess, reading that Donald Trump parody tweet on Twitter in an Uber in hot ... -
Twelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (June 29, 2017)
1. From Mrs. Ryan T. Anderson in The Federalist on weddings, photographers, bakers, and protecting freedom and the soul. 2. Terry Teachout on “The chords that bind.” And a little additional music: I continue my quest for detachment for the horrors of ... -
Kate's Arlington Cemetery Burial
The family of my dear friend and former Washington editor of National Review and president of the National Review Institute sends along the details of her upcoming burial at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday. Both her husband and their eldest ... -
Resisting the Divorce Momentum
Editor’s note: Michael and Diane Medved will be appearing with Jay Nordlinger in Seattle on Wednesday night, hosted by the Discovery Institute. Tickets are available here. Don’t Divorce: Powerful Arguments for Saving and Revitalizing Your Marriage is a ... -
The Standard for Fathers and Fatherhood
‘In a world where even the words ‘marriage’ and ‘family’ mean radically different things to different people, men are more confused than ever about what it means to be a father, much less a godly father,” Gregory K. Popcak writes ... -
The Poetry of World War I Brought to Life
‘How does a human soul cope with the horror of war? Is there room for hope?” At first glance, Death Comes for the War Poets sounds like the last thing one needs more of these days. Death and war. Amsterdam. ... -
A Jewish Woman Unites the World’s Two Largest Religions
‘In the whole Qur’an, which has more than six thousand verses, there is only one woman mentioned by name. There is even a long chapter named after her. Even more, there is an even longer chapter named after her ... -
A Pope and a President and His Family in Rome
Wednesday morning was the first time I woke up, turned on the television, saw Donald Trump, and was at complete peace. (Truth be told I’ve taken to watching cable news as infrequently as possible in recently months.) This morning ... -
Please Join Us as We Talk about Adoption on Monday Night
This past Monday night, as best I can tell, there was not a dry eye in the room as Mille Lopus told her story of being the birth mother – as a college student — of a child who she would give ... -
See the Persecuted: Religious Minorities in Iraq and Syria
‘I’m here on behalf of the president as a tangible sign of his commitment to defending Christians and, frankly, all who suffer for their beliefs across the wider world,” Vice President Mike Pence said at the World Summit in ... -
There’s Always an Upside to Having the Little Sisters of the Poor in the News
There’s something about politics and maybe the Donald J. Trump administration in a particular way that seems a constant public-service announcement about original sin. Sometimes even when there’s good, it’s not entirely right. I thought of that ... -
On Augustine and 100 Days with President Trump
A few thoughts, with the help of Chad Pecknold, who has just wrapped up his impressive, engaging, timely Twitter seminar on City of God. -
Kate O'Beirne: A Woman in Full Who Made the World Better
KateandAnnandNeil_0-copy.jpg From our mutual friend Ann Corkery: Kate’s own book was called “Women Who Make the World Worse.” Kate made the world far better. A happier place, a more joy-filled place, thanks in part to a stiletto-heeled ... -
Radiant Kate
It was with some resignation that I handed off today’s symposium in tribute to the life of my beloved friend Kate O’Beirne for copy-editing. It’s 17,000 words. It could be ten times that length. I had to stop ... -
From Palm Sunday to Easter Peace
Peace. It’s the first thing you notice as you approach the “Coptic cathedral” in Manhattan, on the Upper East Side. St. Mary and St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church is a former Roman Catholic parish by the name of “Our ... -
Power of the Parish
This is one of those times of year when people who most weeks don’t go to church may find themselves in a pew. Maybe it’s part of a family visit. Maybe it’s tradition. Maybe it’s an ... -
Snowstorm’s Tender Message
It was the day before St. Patrick’s Day, and the crowd was a little calmer on the approach to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue early in the morning than it would be for the parade, as commuters ... -
Reality Is Greater Than What We Settle For
‘Love is why God created the world.” It seems quite the claim, maybe especially when turning on the news these days or, in some cases, looking out the window. These certainly are not the worst of times, but certainly far ... -
Modern-Day Martyrs Show Love and Forgiveness
Two years ago this month Beshir Kamel went on television and thanked so-called Islamic State terrorists for not editing out the last words of his brother and the other Egyptian men they beheaded on a beach in Libya. “Lord, Jesus ... -
Saint Augustine on Twitter
‘That should keep you busy,” an Amtrak conductor commented as he saw my already-worn copy of Saint Augustine’s City of God in front of me shortly after boarding in Baltimore for New York. Reading the 1,000-plus-page classic was not ... -
Dissing Susan B. Anthony
Serrin Foster has been talking about Susan B. Anthony probably for as long as she can remember. She’s with Feminists for Life, and a Saturday Night Live skit recently sent her into overdrive. An unlikely gift for a group ... -
What If Steven McDonald’s Last 30 Years Hadn’t Happened?
Some years ago — in 2001 — I interviewed Dr. Philip Nitschke, an international advocate for assisted suicide, based in Australia. He was candid during the course of the interview, admitting that the option to “give away” life should ultimately be available to “... -
Getting the Christmas Point
‘Why do people go to church on Christmas?” It was one of the questions passersby asked as they noticed the security line before midnight Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Christmas Eve. There were some colorful things said, as ... -
Living Hope: Lessons from a Persecuted Christian in the Middle East
One of the most moving moments of my year came the Saturday morning I interviewed Father Douglas Bazi. It was just before he would celebrate Mass in the Chaldean rite, just yards from the White House, in a Catholic chapel, ... -
Mother Angelica’s Lasting Legacy
‘The richest part of her life, maybe the most important, happened hidden away in silence, in a corner room in Hanceville, Ala., when she could not feed herself, she could not move on her own, she could not get out ...