Suppose you are the pastor of a large suburban parish and suppose further that several members of your parish want to invite a well-known speaker to talk about the threat from militant Islam. You check […]
Ever since the seventeenth century, the celebrated “Galileo affair” has been one of the featured items on the list of dark moments in the history of Catholicism. That the Church mistreated the Italian astronomer—or at […]
In the late 1990s, I read a former Anglican’s conversion story. He said his journey to Catholicism began when he realized the person standing next to him during services, who he knew well, meant the […]
Last week I spent six days at a place only about a ten-minute drive from my home, but I had, nevertheless, entered a country as “foreign” to my experience as Botswana or Katmandu. You see, […]
[Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a series examining Cardinal Walter Kasper’s proposals regarding the reception of Communion by the civilly divorced and remarried (it can be read in English here.) The first can be […]
The persecution of the Catholic Church and other morally conservative religious bodies has begun in the United States. As predicted, it isn’t—thank God—bloody persecution like the persecution of Christians in many countries. But it’s real […]
There is a place in Slovakia called Bardejovska Nova Ves where pro-lifers have erected a poignant monument to the Unborn Child. It portrays a weeping mother, on her knees before a translucent child figure, depicted […]
I am growing weary of the hypocrisy of the phrase “the lived experience of the people.” This slyly loaded phrase is being employed by waffling and dissenting Catholic bishops in the lead-up to the Synod […]
Ireland, once dubbed “the most Catholic country in the world” by the future Pope Paul VI, has become the first country in the world to adopt same-sex marriage by means of a popular vote. For […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: (3 out of 5) Like the vast, revolving jet ride from the attraction that inspired it, Tomorrowland feels a bit uneven and disjointed; you might say it […]
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