Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw writes: “With searing images of mob violence at the U.S. Capitol fresh in memory, Joe Biden comes to the presidency as a potential healer of divisions and binder ...
Lower numbers and higher expectations — that, briefly stated, is the story of the March for Life in 2021, writes Russell Shaw in his latest column. For many years the pro-life march has drawn tens ...
The pro-life movement has lots of heroes and heroines, sung and unsung alike, writes Russell Shaw, but there’s always room for one more. As an addition to the roster of unsung heroes, he nominates Dick ...
Suppose you’ve been convicted of a crime you didn’t commit and are in jail waiting for your appeal to be heard — how would you pass the time? In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, ...
Contributing editor Russell Shaw looks at the ongoing culture wars and notes that while there are organizations that are hoping to abolish religion from the public square, Christians are called to remember that Christ was ...
Russell Shaw looks at the downward trend of Catholic schools in the United States. He writes that as we mark the 210th anniversary of the founding of the parochial school system in the United States ...
Russell Shaw looks back at this week’s fall assembly of the U.S. Conference for Catholic Bishops. The biggest news came at the end, when Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles made the surprise announcement ...
Russell Shaw writes that one thing is clear following the release of the McCarrick report: The Church needs a meaningful degree of proactive transparency regarding the process by which bishops continue to be appointed and ...
The U.S. bishops’ upcoming fall general assembly will be overshadowed by the presence of a man who won’t be there — former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. On Tuesday, less than a week before the Nov. 16-17 ...
With charges and counter-charges proliferating, and recounts and court tests probable, Americans watched with dismay as the 2020 election came to resemble a public brawl more than an orderly, dignified electoral process. But despite the ...
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