Earlier this week, Pope Benedict lit what has been touted as “the world’s largest Christmas tree”—in reality an arrangement of hundreds of electric lights on the slopes of Mount Ingino, above the Italian town of […]
The basic problem with wanting to have it both ways is that you usually end up with either nothing or (more often) the destruction of the good. We Americans, sadly, have a weakness for having […]
The Catholic Church does not claim teaching authority on matters of economics and finance. When the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace issues a statement on the world’s financial markets, faithful Catholics are not bound […]
Adorning books about Ireland’s storied past are such titles as How the Irish Saved Civilization. Today’s Ireland, however, is busy losing it. In recent decades secularism has coursed through the country, transforming a pious island […]
Bishop Robert Morlino, 64, has served as bishop of Madison, Wisconsin since 2003. He was born and reared in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, near Scranton. He was an only child; his father was a civil engineer but […]
The year was 1989. The continent of Europe was changing. The Solidarity movement of Poland had gained strong momentum, the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia would take place in November, and the first steps toward the […]
From the publisher: As we announced in our October issue, this December 2011 issue will be CWR’s last as a print magazine. Starting in January 2012, CWR will be published exclusively online, at www.catholicworldreport.com, with […]
In 1558, after five years of Catholic tyranny, the good Virgin Queen succeeded Bloody Mary, who had burned countless Christians at the stake. During Elizabeth’s reign, the heroic Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe and […]
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