Pope Benedict XVI has begun a new series of general audiences, which will, he states, focus on “prayer in the Acts of the Apostles and in the Letters of St. Paul.” As he did so […]
Just a few days after a nationwide CBS/New York Times poll found that 57 percent of Americans believe there should be exceptions for employers who have moral objections to providing health insurance plans that cover […]
“No single event since Eve took the apple has been as consequential for relations between the sexes as the arrival of modern contraception,” writes Mary Eberstadt in the introduction to her new book Adam and […]
Answer: anyone who paid attention, gave the man a chance, and actually read some of his several significant pre-pontificate essays and addresses on ecumenism (and inter-religious dialogue). Remember all of those many years ago (two? […]
Whilst attending my mandatory four years in a state-operated institution of patchwork, dubious learning (aka, high school) in the mid-1980s, I was taught that the basic narrative for the women’s “lib” movement was it allowed […]
When the HHS mandate was first delivered from on high, it so shocked and stunned many Catholics that something rather exceptional occured: for a few moments—even a few days, in a handful of remarkable cases—some […]
I. Payoff at Infinity In 1933, at the height of the worldwide economic depression, G. K. Chesterton wrote, “The modern world began by Bentham writing the Defense of Usury.” He was referring to Jeremy Bentham’s […]
Over the years, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT), which was founded in 1994, has released a number of ecumenical statements addressing a wide range of theological, social, and political issues. The most recent is on […]
On March 11, 2011 Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet was released from a maximum-security prison outside Havana. The release of Dr. Biscet, who had spent all but 36 days of the past 11 years in a […]
It’s not news, sadly, that Christianity is dying in England. But the severity of the decline is worse, perhaps, than many have thought. From The Daily Mail: The study, Religion in Great Britain, concludes: ‘Between […]
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