From a piece in The Australian (note: links may require registration) by Tess Livingstone, who wrote this biography of Cardinal George Pell, published in North American by Ignatius Press: Australia’s Cardinal George Pell yesterday called on the Vatican press […]
Thousands of pilgrims began gathering at St. Peter’s Square at dawn today, to be present for Pope Benedict XVI’s final Angelus address. From Vatican Radio’s report: They had come in their thousands, pouring into the […]
Today the Vatican’s Secretariat of State issued a communique deploring the “widespread distribution of often unverified, unverifiable, or even completely false news stories” ahead of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, […]
That is the subject of this recent National Catholic Register feature by Joan Frawley Desmond, who writes: As the founder of Ignatius Press, a leading publisher of Catholic theological works, Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio has […]
A little more than 90 years ago, G.K. Chesterton, one of the 20th century’s most famous converts, entered the Catholic Church. Explaining “why I am a Catholic,” he wrote: “there are ten thousand reasons all […]
Review of Why Priests? A Failed Tradition By Garry Wills New York: Viking Press, 2013. 302 pages. It was no surprise to see Garry Wills’ op-ed on the upcoming papal conclave published in The New […]
In his February 21, 2013 article in The Wall Street Journal, “The Assassin at the Door”, Lars Hedegaard describes how he barely escaped assassination for his public criticism of radical Islam, and attempts to impose Sharia Law […]
For the last several weeks I’ve been teaching an online course about the role of the Catholic laity. We’d just gotten to the subject of personal vocation when the startling news came through: Benedict XVI […]
When a coalition of United States scientists issued the most recent draft of its National Climate Assessment, it captured the attention of environmental regulators like me. Two weeks later, the United States Environmental Protection Agency […]
It is good to often remind myself that as frustrating as things can be here in the United States when it comes to religious liberty and related matters, there are Christians in other parts of […]
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