Essay
Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color
As the nation marks Jesse Jackson’s death at age 84, I realize that the temptation will be either to canonize the man as an icon [...]
Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color
Essay
As the nation marks Jesse Jackson’s death at age 84, I realize that the temptation will be either to canonize the man as an icon of civil rights sainthood or to dismiss him as a [...]
Three questions to answer on Ash Wednesday
Essay
Since all human sin has its origins in that “original” sin of our first parents, let’s go back to that very beginning. […]
Features
The Year of Saint Francis: With Insights from Franciscans
In the eleventh canto of his Paradiso, Dante wrote that there “rose upon the world a sun,” a man who shone with love for Lady Poverty, as no man had since Christ: She, reft of her first [...]
Features
Head of U.S. bishops joins call for Notre Dame to drop appointment of pro-abortion professor
The school has indicated it will stick by its decision for Professor Susan Ostermann to lead a university institute. […]
Features
Church kidnappings plague Nigeria as clerics declare nation a “failed state”
A wave of terror has swept through central Nigeria, marked by a series of brazen kidnappings and killings. The most recent incident occurred on February 6, when gunmen abducted nine teenage worshippers during a night [...]
Essay
The memory of a Vianney-like priest lay hidden in the West Virginia mountains
Few coal miners wanted anything to do with the stranger in the black cassock who arrived in town in 1933. It was the Great Depression in West Virginia—food was scarce and shifts were irregular. So [...]
Books
In praise of Tracey Rowland’s Introducing Communio Theology
Editor’s note: The following address was given in Sydney, Australia, on February 5th, at the launch of Introducing Communio Theology, written by Professor Tracey Rowland and published by Word on Fire Academic. The late Holy [...]
Analysis
Trans ideology is at the end of the beginning
In early November 1942, the Allied forces finally and permanently gained control of Libya and Egypt from the Axis powers following the Second Battle at El Alamein. Along with the November 8 Allied invasion of [...]
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We live in unusual times, and Donald Trump is, to put it mildly, an unusual politician. We need to understand him to deal with him, and with that in mind, I will present my own [...] -
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Just a week after Archbishop Coakley, the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), met with President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Secretary Noem, three U.S. cardinals ignored Archbishop Coakley’s [...] -
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mrscracker:
Or watch the 1930s version with Merle Oberon?
Michael B:
I am missing something. When during the last fifty years has a pope been prevented from retaining "his complete freedom…
Fr Peter Morello, PhD:
@ A defense of Scott Hahn and the Hahn School Like Peter Wolfgang I'm not a biblical scholar. The Seder…
