Over at “Couric & Co.,” we’ve just put up an interview with former Oklahoma governor Frank Keating, who had a stormy tenure as head of National Review Board in 2002-2003. He has some interesting things to say about what just happened in Los Angeles — particularly, about his own comments comparing some bishops (I wonder…

Last Saturday, after the 5 o’clock mass, my wife and I went to dinner down on Austin Street. And after dinner, we took a walk and decided to stop in at Barnes & Noble. Upstairs, in the religion section – wouldn’t you know that I’d go to the religion section? – I found a new…

Out in Los Angeles, they’re still trying to make sense of what has happened this week to make the archdiocese $660 million poorer. The faith seems to be holding strong, though doubts about the institution surrounding it persist: As she is every morning, Angela K. Lee was at St. Cyril of Jerusalem Catholic Church in…

We hear grumblings all the time that the Church is sexist, or misogynist, or somehow trampling on the rights of women by denying them Holy Orders. But then you have women who are administering parishes — acting, in effect, as pastors to their flocks — and now comes word that the pope is looking at…

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