Women can’t catch a break in the sexual code department. When I was a girl in the early 60s the protocol was that it was up to us to control romantic encounters because teenage boys could not; their urge was so strong they couldn’t be expected to curb themselves, so we had... Read More →

  The late John Courtney Murray, S.J., once told me that at a convention he attended, a Protestant theologian said to him in a rather worried tone of voice, “I don’t see how we can base a foreign policy on the Sermon on the Mount.” Replied Fr. Murray, “I never thought we... Read More →