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A longtime reader writes: The time in the ‘comment cloister’ has been a journey. It has caused me to consider my own quick-to-judge tendencies. Following the way I tend to see so many things – neither all good or all bad, I will say that in my own (good-i-think) desire to have real conversation I…

“For too long we’ve had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood. We almost embrace mediocrity as the norm. What’s the difference between a doctor and a priest? As someone once answered long ago, there really is no comparison: one deals with matters of life and death; the other just deals with the health…

Whether we realize it or not, the figure of a Catholic priest has long played a starring role in the movies. CNS’s David DiCerta explains: In 1915, D.W. Griffith followed up his controversial silent classic “Birth of a Nation” with the ambitious epic “Intolerance,” which prominently featured a Catholic priest administering last rites to a…

A legendary New York columnist has moved to the great Copy Desk in the Sky. Bill Reel, who wrote the “Reel People” column for the New York Daily News, and later toiled for at time for my own diocesan paper, the Brooklyn Tablet, died Monday from cancer. Over at NRO’s The Corner, William McGurn takes note:…
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