The recently released instrumentum laboris, published by the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in preparation for this October’s Extraordinary General Assembly of Bishops, presents a compelling and often illuminating synopsis of the state […]
The video below has been making the rounds—it is a segment from the “Today Show” highlighting some of the latest research on the development of unborn babies. According to the piece, “The Secret Lives of […]
Last Sunday the New York Times ran an interview with Dean Koontz, in which the prolific novelist and Catholic discussed some of his favorite books and authors. Koontz is asked about his favorite novelists (these […]
On the first day of my vacation last week, I perused N.T. Wright’s latest book, a collection of essays on contemporary issues in light of the Bible. A point that Wright makes in a number […]
Kaye Park Hinckley’s Birds of a Feather, her first collection of short fiction, is a book of 10 stories about people who could be the everyday folks you know in your family, in your town, […]
“In the church, the [consecrated] religious are called to be prophets in particular by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its perfection. A […]
The Rev. John J. Conley, S.J., who holds the Knott Chair in Philosophy and Theology at Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore, Md), has written a somewhat surprising—but welcome, in my estimation—piece, titled “For Israel”, in America […]
On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess Sophie, in Sarajevo. A month later, on July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and on August 1, Germany […]
On the face of it, the newly-released film, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, has a typical plot. A man is looking for a soul mate to fulfill him, and then the soul mate is found—but […]
You enter a ritual space and take your seat in the midst of a large audience. At the front or perhaps the middle of the hall (often a vast and airy one, but sometimes a […]
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