I just read a shocking article, “IVF Baby Born Using Revolutionary Genetic-Screening Process” (July 7, 2013), published online by The Guardian. What shocked me most was the casual manner its author Ian Samples uses to […]
After writing an editorial, “Throwing Down the Gauntlet of Faith” (July 8th), about the encyclical, Lumen Fidei, I wrote a longer and more thorough piece, “Unity and the Light of Faith” for Catholic Pulse. Here […]
I must have been eight or nine-years-old at the time. I had been playing soccer in the local park with some boys my age, and as well as my friends there were some children we’d […]
Yes, I’ll admit it: I’m climbing on my high horse and I’m probably going to anger a few readers. So be it. The fact is, I’m sick of hearing about the George Zimmerman story, case, […]
Bryan, Texas – Wendy Davis and her supporters have either bought into a lie about abortion or mistakenly believe these clinics are safe places, but we have the truth, says former abortion clinic worker Abby […]
BOSTON – “Nature reveals God’s mind and imagination, and scripture reveals God’s heart and will,” says philosopher Peter Kreeft. But the “ability to read natural signs has decreased with the increase in the ability to […]
The late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) illicitly consecrated four bishops for the Society of Saint Pius X on June 30, 1988. To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of that landmark event, the Society’s three remaining prelates, […]
Claims that something is inevitable are generally of two kinds. Sometimes the claim is simply a statement of fact (“Inevitably, the sun will rise tomorrow”). Other times it expresses a wish or perhaps a fear […]
Veteran Italian journalist Sandro Magister offers some analysis worth pondering: Benedict XVI, in effect, was different. In spite of his meek appearance, he was often very explicit and direct in expressing his judgments and in […]
Why does it seem that orderly, prosperous, and well-run societies are usually less religious, but the less religious a society becomes the more disorderly it gets? The situation is complex, it’s hard to do comparisons, […]
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