Life Coaching the New Pope

GAME PLAN: Dear Soon-to-Be Your Holiness — It is time. You can feel it, can’t you? The old, dusty walls, in their own way, are crumbling down around you and leaving gaping holes in this Church of yours.  All metaphor, of course, for a much more immense structure...

The Church today

Maureen Dowd on Catholicism and nuns in particular: The Nuns’ Story Hard pressed to say what’s more interesting, the column or the comments on the column. The six-paragraph long comment blaming Vatican II, and liberalism, for the pedophilia scandal is...

Those family demons

This piece — called Free To Be His Own Buckley — about Christopher Buckley in The New York Times yesterday spoke to me so much, not necessarily from a political standpoint (OK, maybe partly that) but from a writing standpoint. My favorite part, speaking...