I have many thoughts about Pope Francis’ comments about family size, birth control, and rabbits, made yesterday during an interview with reporters as the Holy Father returned to Rome from his trip to the Philippines. […]
The cargo ship recklessly headed towards the coast of Italy. The crew had abandoned ship and the Italian coast guard scrambled to intervene. After regaining control of the ship the coast guard discovered a troubling […]
Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in a slightly different form in November 2013 as part of the CWR Symposium, “Vatican II, Salvation, and the Unsaved”. It is reprinted here on the occasion of the recent publication […]
Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet, and the former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who is now the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University […]
I. Cicero’s famous essay “On Old Age—De Senectute”—is based on the fact that it is normal for human beings to grow old and die. This essay also recalls the passage in Ecclesiastes 3:4, about a […]
Margery Eagan appears to be angling for a job as editor of National “Catholic” Reporter. Or perhaps spokesman for the LCWR: The news that Pope Francis has strongly defended the Church’s ban on artificial birth control left me, in […]
The Catholic Diocese of Mzuzu in northern Malawi, on Thursday 15th January, lost their bishop through a tragic road crash. His Lordship, Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza, who was also the President of the Episcopal Conference […]
It’s apparently official, as reported on SCOTUSblog: Taking on a historic constitutional challenge with wide cultural impact, the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon agreed to hear four new cases on same-sex marriage. The Court said […]
Below is the full text of Pope Francis’ address to a large gathering of families on Friday, delivered at Mall of Asia Arena on the second day of the Holy Father’s five-day visit to the […]
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