Features
From atheism and Marxism to Catholicism: The conversion of Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari, 33, is a New York City journalist and Catholic convert. He grew up in a nominally Muslim home in Iran under an oppressive [...]
From atheism and Marxism to Catholicism: The conversion of Sohrab Ahmari
Features
Sohrab Ahmari, 33, is a New York City journalist and Catholic convert. He grew up in a nominally Muslim home in Iran under an oppressive Islamic regime and had renounced all religion by his teen [...]
What the Bishop Zanchetta case tells us about Church leadership
Features
The Vatican has doubled down on its insistence it never received any accusation of sexual abuse against Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta until well after Zanchetta, the former bishop of Orán, Argentina, was ensconced in a position [...]
Features
Former vicar: Vatican already knew about sexual abuse allegations against Argentine bishop
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan 20, 2019 / 12:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In an exclusive report from the Associated Press, the former vicar to Argentine Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta said that the Vatican had had information [...]
Essay
Cana, Signs, and Sacraments
Readings: • Is 62:1-5 • Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 9-10 • 1 Cor 12:4-11 • Jn 2:1-11 The Gospel of John contains some seventeen direct references to signs (semeia), which is St. John’s term for [...]
Features
INVOcell: A Catholic-friendly treatment for infertility?
Some fertility specialists are touting a new fertility treatment as a “Catholic-friendly” alternative to traditional in vitro fertilization. Catholic couples struggling with infertility—willing to try the procedure if, indeed, it is ethical—need help to cut [...]
Columns
Does the West face “an almost certain doom”?
“Islam, as the jihads in Spain, France, Italy, and Asia Minor show, was hostile to the West from its inception. There was no peaceful co-existence.; there were only brief periods in between jihad invasions. Christian [...]
Analysis
Nothing about us without us
The slogan “Nothing about us without us” was used by Solidarity in the 1980s in Poland, borrowing a royal motto from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the mid-second millennium. Then, it was expressed in Latin: Nihil [...]
Books
A Remarkable History of Christian Self-Understanding
Last year, the five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation was celebrated by some and noted with remorse by others. Though the reformers sought to rebuild Christianity on the principle of sola scriptura, without either papal [...]
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“Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God.” — Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2113 “For the grace of God has [...] -
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Carl E. Olson:
There are plenty of sinners within the Church. That's a given. But I've always been more amazed by the saints…
Thomas E. Abbott, Ph.D.:
This kind of hypocrisy is the reason I left the Catholic Church many years ago. This kind of hypocrisy now…
Kay:
Sorry Sean. I saw no sign of arrogance or "know it all" attitude in Father's remarks. However, I…
