VATICAN CITY — I went down several levels of archaeological history at the tomb of St. Peter on a recent morning in search of Peter, whom we Catholics believe was the first pope. Only Peter didn’t know he was pope and didn’t know there was a Catholic church, either. All that would come later. The [...]

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Rev. Wright said it: Barack Obama says what he says because he’s a politician. I am not a politician. I work for God. Many Americans, perhaps, would accept that contrast. From the point of view of the Catholic social theory to which I subscribe, the contrast is not valid. Both of them — the politician [...]

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As the Bush administration winds down, people will reflect on the strange ideas that have emerged during this disastrous era in our country’s history. We also will wonder about the arrogant ignorance that shaped the tragedy of the last eight years. It is imperative to consider where the ideas came from that will live after [...]

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I fail to see that the envious and bitter attacks of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright should have created the crisis in Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign when the remarks of Pastor John Hagee have not created a similar crisis in Sen. John McCain’s campaign. Why is McCain somehow not responsible for Hagee while Obama is responsible [...]

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Catholic racism in Pennsylvania? Seventy-two percent of Catholic Democrats in the heavily Catholic state of Pennsylvania voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton, according to the MSNBC exit polls, and more than half of them said they would not vote for Sen. Barack Obama if he won the nomination. The finding gave me a chill. On the [...]

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