In his latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, Russell Shaw writes that “in an odd way the pandemic is — or at least can be — a community-forming event. We are in this together, and ...
Does literature have anything to say about the pandemic? Actually, more than you might think. Contributing editor Russell Shaw explains that works of the imagination that involve epidemics and plagues make up a distinct literary ...
For all practical purposes, or at least most, the Supreme Court likely has already decided the most important abortion-related case to come before it in nearly half a century. But the decision is known only ...
In the 10th installment on the life of Christ, Russell Shaw writes about the Sadducees and Pharisees, the opposition who were hostile and unyielding from the start, and by the end, they had become murderous. ...
In agreeing to consider a dispute involving a Catholic social service agency’s policy of not placing foster children with same-sex couples, the Supreme Court has set the stage for what may be a landmark ruling ...
Virgil C. Dechant, former supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus who died Feb. 16 at his home in Leawood, Kansas, was a much larger man, with far more influence on the Church than his ...
A month before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the case, June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee, Russell Shaw shares some insight on how, no matter what happens, things are changing at the Supreme ...
In the ninth installment on the life of Christ, Russell Shaw writes after Jesus asks the apostle, “Who do people say I am?” Peter responds acknowledging Jesus as the messiah. The apostles witness Jesus’ Transfiguration, ...
Russell Shaw writes that he’s had a hunch for quite some time that more people than we might suppose have had mystical experiences or, if not quite that, at least something resembling them. In Kathryn ...
Pope Francis' November plea for nuclear disarmament, including an end to nuclear deterrence, was considered by some to be unrealistic. So let us consider who comes out on top in this argument -- the self-proclaimed ...
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