Robert Louis Wilken—radical Christian disciple, devoted husband and father, distinguished patristics scholar, elegant writer, serious baseball guy—died on June 6, a few months short of age 90. Curiously enough, the first thing that comes to […]
What JD Vance Found in the Church (First Things): “Like the great African Church Father m[St. Augustine], JD Vance is a man from the backwoods, far from the centers of power.” The SSPX Again Says […]
Speaking with Italian media, Brian Burch said the informal evening showed a pontiff who is both personally at ease with his American roots and conscious of his universal mission. […]
From the inception of the Internet, we’ve known that there is a distance between who we are as embodied souls struggling through a fallen world and who we present to be on the Internet, even […]
Pope Leo XIV has called the presidents of bishops’ conferences to Rome Oct. 7–14 for a weeklong gathering on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia.” […]
Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 The literary critic Hugh Kenner, in Paradox in Chesterton (Sheed & Ward, 1947), distinguished between two types of paradox. […]
Here are 12 Catholic Americans whose lives and legacies have left a lasting mark on the United States. […]
A new six-year report has challenged the widespread belief that the Boko Haram terrorist organization and its affiliate, Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, are responsible for the majority of civilian killings in Nigeria. Instead, […]
Many years ago, when my oldest daughter came home from her first day of second grade in our local public elementary school (after having been home-schooled for two years), I asked her how she liked […]
The pontiff’s letter stressed religious freedom, the right to life, and the contributions of Catholics and immigrants to American history. […]
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