The View from This Seat

Today’s blog post was long planned to be an article about Junípero Serra , who was canonized five years ago on September 23. But then Justi...

Chapter Eight of my book The Limits of Liberalism is titled “The Limits of Liberals’ Views about Sin,” and this blog post is based on that ...

Most of you know about the J.C. Penney chain of stores. But do you know who J.C. Penney was? Perhaps only a few of you have ever been to his...

Just as in 1968, racial tension in the U.S. has been rampant these last few months in 2020, and, again, just like back then, one presidentia...

The Honorable John Lewis, the noted civil-rights leader who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1987 until his death earlier t...

Abortion is extremely contentious, and for more than 45 years now, there has been considerable “warfare” between “pro-choice” and “pro-life”...

Through the years I knew and referred to him as Cardinal Newman, but in 2019 he was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. I am posting thi...