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From time to time, there is an event that has broad implications in that it is part of a larger pastiche that tells us where we are as a society. Several Trump-related stories fall into this category.
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What have we become as a nation? In the past, careers have ended due to far less than what Trump (or Thomas) have done. Today, Trump’s long record of offenses and malfeasance do not hurt him with Republicans and he still has support among the general electorate. Have we...
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“Hey, Joey, we’re playin stickball on Dean Street, c’mon,” Tony proclaimed loud enough to be heard by all the kids playing in the street. It was also heard by the older guys hanging around, and the old ladies sitting in front of their houses in folding chairs.
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American Catholics have always had a minority status. Throughout most of the nation’s history, they were a relatively quiet minority, professing their loyalty to the United States in order to show that they were not, as many non-Catholic Americans feared, agents of the Roman hierarchy. Few public figures were...
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By Kenneth J Uva A recent obituary in The New York Times for Sister Megan Rice, “Fierce Critic of Nuclear Weapons” (October 18, 2021) was accompanied by a photo of Sister Megan from 2012 wearing a tee shirt with the words “THE CATHOLIC WORKER.” While the Catholic Church is...
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When I was a very young boy in Brooklyn, I never heard an argument about politics. The subject of debate, both friendly and not so friendly, was baseball.
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SEX, COMMUNISM, AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH By Kenneth J Uva The sky was silver gray, typical of a late fall day in New England, as I drove from Boston to an old farmhouse in New Hampshire that was designated a monastery. The place was on a...
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