Pope Francis has made quite the impression in his first week of Petrine ministry. He has already become endeared to many with his gestures of humility, including his bowing and asking the crowd's blessing on election night, his paying his own hotel bill, his declining papal regalia such...

In Pope Francis' brief homily for the inaugural Mass of his papal ministry, he emphasized something that should be familiar to American Catholics who have seen a certain motto sometimes displayed on police cars: to serve and protect.

Pope Francis highlighted how he views his...

Over at National Review, George Weigel has put up a blog post, "Don't Know Much about Theology...". In it, he criticizes a number of things. I will highlight these and say a brief word about them; however, I will especially focus further below on what Weigel claims about...

As a theological ethicist who also used to work in law enforcement, I feel obligated to comment on the latest incident involving police using pepper spray on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Garance Franke-Ruta over at The Atlantic provides, I think, a fair account of this, including most recently...

While running during lunch hour on campus the first day of classes this semester, I saw a student wearing a t-shirt with "Billi-what?" on the front. Billikens were all the rage in the US at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although there continues to be some mystery as to...

There were two state-sanctioned executions in the United States on September 21, 2011. In Georgia, Troy Anthony Davis, an African American man, was put to death for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. In Texas, Lawrence Brewer, a white supremacist, was executed for his participation in the...