The Elmbrook School District operates two public high schools in suburban Wisconsin. Finding that its own gymnasiums were cramped, hot, and uncomfortable, and at the request of students, it decided to move joint graduation ceremonies […]
“Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the future, because they know they have done nothing but evil in the past.” — G. K. Chesterton, Avowals and Denials, 1935. “The […]
For a month now, sections of the Irish and international media have been convulsed by reports of shockingly high mortality rates at a state-funded, Church-run mother and baby home in the west of Ireland. It […]
Islam’s persecution of Christianity has reached a grotesque crescendo in the past few months. Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Egypt—the list goes on and horribly on. There is much that can be said—and I will not refrain […]
Among the recent positive developments of Catholicism in the Northern countries, Deacon Anders Hamberg was ordained a priest on Saturday, June 7th, as only the sixth Finnish-born Catholic priest since the Reformation. The ordination took […]
Editor’s note: The following was originally given as an address at the Bosque School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 8, 2014. “It (disappointment) occurs when the boy who has been enchanted by Stories from […]
A few years ago my mother took me to a remote glen in County Tyrone near where our ancestors had lived for centuries. She showed me a small memorial marking the site of a Mass […]
Since 1987, the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal have lived in some of the poorest communities in the United States, Europe, and Central America while evangelizing and ministering to those in need. In the beginning, […]
Addressing a crowd gathered in Washington, DC earlier today, San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone encouraged supporters of traditional marriage to “go forth to build a civilization of truth and love.” The archbishop, who serves as […]
Murong Xuecun, a Chinese novelist, writes of recent measures taken by the Chinese government to intimidate Christians and repress the growth of Christianity: On June 1, my friend Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain […]
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