Two recent stories illustrating the vulnerabilities of priests have deeply saddened me. In early July, Father Matteo Balzano, a young Italian priest, took his own life. Father Matteo’s suicide shocked his parishioners, as they had not […]
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is urging lawmakers to prohibit surrogacy in all cases in a letter submitted on July 9, 2025. / Credit: Shutterstock
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“Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when those primitive calculating machines could occupy the entire floor of a building. That […]
The Successors of Peter – “The identity of modern Catholics comes with our recognition of a legal jurisdiction. Catholics recognize a legal authority—the pope—under whose governance their religion is to be lived.” Something of a […]
In 2021, the Supreme Court finally invalidated the disastrous Roe v. Wade, wherein the Justices, over fifty years ago, “discovered” the heretofore unknown constitutional right to abortion emanating from “penumbras” in the Bill of Rights. Dobbs […]
Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski serves on the Committee on Migration of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. / Credit: “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”/EWTN News screenshot
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Joseph Ratzinger’s early contributions to the topics of divine revelation, human history, and the relation between the two, which brought him both praise and charges of championing “dangerous modernism,” continue to assist the Church in […]
Notre-Dame de Paris (French for “Our Lady of Paris”), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. / Credit: Sam valadi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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During the current and long stretch of Ordinary Time, the famous towns of Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned several times during the Readings for Mass. When Catholics today hear “Sodom and Gomorrah,” what comes to […]
Imagine tracing history with your own feet, stepping where defenders of faith once trod and letting their courage inspire you. For more than twenty years, I have taught a course entitled “Italy in the Footsteps of […]
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