Dolan, Obama, Laity and Outrage
Kresta Commentary October 10, 2012 By Al Kresta Dear co-laborers in the Lord, I have an absolutely urgent request. Cardinal Timothy Dolan has done an outstanding job leading the Catholic resistance to...
View ArticleLooking Forward and Looking Backward
Kresta Commentary February 12, 2013 By Al Kresta If you had asked me two months ago if Benedict XVI would be the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years, I would have said, I wouldn’t be at all...
View ArticleWe Need a New St. Francis
Kresta Commentary March 14, 2013 By Al Kresta You know you are in the presence of greatness when your only reservation about someone is his age. We have a new pope and, the worst thing that observant...
View ArticleAre We on the Right Track in the Fight for Marriage?
National Catholic Register September 4, 2013 By Al Kresta COMMENTARY: Joseph Bottum’s Essay Critiquing the Church’s Current Efforts Against Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Raises Questions Worth Considering....
View ArticleIt’s a Great Time to be Catholic in America
Kresta Commentary September 20, 2013 By Al Kresta Dear friends, Because I am on the road today, I wanted to post my continuing reflections on the Pope Francis interview. These are subject to...
View ArticleCatholic in America: The Church, above all, is about people
The Michigan Catholic May 9, 2014 An unchurched student at MSU in 1974, I realized that the Resurrected Jesus of the New Testament was alive. He had counted the hairs on my head and penetrated the...
View ArticleCatholic in America: Making the Gospel real in our lives
The Michigan Catholic June 2, 2014 Al Kresta “I never knew these things really happened.” That statement of shock first dropped from my lips 40 years ago. Since then it has formed the scaffolding...
View ArticleCatholic in America: When to judge, when to ‘judge not’?
The Michigan Catholic June 12, 2014 Al Kresta Every few years television talk shows recycle past popular themes. One perennial favorite features prostitutes who, even after marrying their pimps, keep...
View ArticleCatholic in America: Ignoring real problems in the ‘transgender tipping point’
The Michigan Catholic June 26, 2014 Al Kresta The June 9 cover story of TIME magazine wonders or, rather, insinuates, that we have reached the “Transgender Tipping Point,” and dubs it “America’s next...
View ArticleCatholic in America: Catholic Unity Threatened
The Michigan Catholic July 25, 2014 Al Kresta When I see people cloaking their own political/economic preferences with the authority of divine revelation, I get angry. Jesus, himself, got angry when...
View ArticleCatholic in America: How Catholic unity becomes threatened
The Michigan Catholic August 8, 2014 Al Kresta When I see people cloaking their own political/economic preferences with the authority of divine revelation, I get angry. Jesus, himself, got angry when...
View ArticleCatholic in America: How Catholics should process the death of Robin Williams
The Michigan Catholic August 22, 2014 Al Kresta After Robin Williams’ suicide, I interviewed a film critic and an aspiring filmmaker about Williams’ often troubled life. The interviews were respectful,...
View ArticleCatholic in America: Decency and honesty … not too shabby
The Michigan Catholic September 5, 2014 Al Kresta Too often, it seems that the common decency and intellectual honesty that earlier generations expected from adults is no longer valued in our world...
View ArticleCatholic in America: Beginning to restore the divided Church of Christ
The Michigan Catholic November 26, 2014 Al Kresta “Reformation Day” is celebrated by Protestant Christians on Oct. 31. As a former Protestant pastor, I use it to thank God for the disciplines of...
View ArticleCatholic in America: 2014: What hast thou wrought?
The Michigan Catholic December 26, 2014 Al Kresta It’s late December, and the close of another year. Of what have we been concerned, and what have we learned, in 2014? Torture: Senate Democrats...
View ArticleCatholic in America: Martin Luther King Jr. was flawed, but does it matter?
The Michigan Catholic January 23, 2015 Al Kresta Martin Luther King Jr. is a hero to most Americans. Every child is taught to look up to, if not revere, him. Every rights movement polishes itself with...
View ArticleCatholic in America: We Must Understand Mindset of Jihadism
The Michigan Catholic February 6, 2015 Al Kresta Two weeks ago, I asked a crowd of 650 educated Catholic CEOs and their spouses if they had ever seen Osama bin Laden’s 1998 Declaration of War, in which...
View ArticleCatholic in America: ‘Fifty Shades’ the Product of a Romantically Bankrupt...
The Michigan Catholic February 20, 2015 Al Kresta From a cheesy bit of anonymous fan fiction with vapid characters, ludicrous plot and insipid writing, “Fifty Shades of Grey” morphed into a Harry...
View ArticleCatholic in America: They Asked Me How I Pray
The Michigan Catholic March 6, 2015 Al Kresta A friend told me he had been to a blog which featured a section called, “How I Pray.” He added that another friend of mine, Steve Greydanus, a film critic...
View ArticleCatholic in America: Looking for Happiness? Find God. He has it.
The Michigan Catholic March 20, 2015 Al Kresta In the spring of 203, a new era in human happiness began. A young North African woman was taken into custody by Roman soldiers in Carthage, in modern...
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