It is difficult to know where to start a review of a book as extraordinary as Corinna Turner’s Someday. I am not a fan of YA fiction as a rule but my attention was drawn […]
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published on Ignatius Insight on September 18, 2006. It is republished here on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Benedict XVI’s Regensburg Address. I. Both before and since his elevation […]
Ten years ago Pope Benedict XVI took to the dais of the University of Regensburg’s Aula Magna to offer a few “memories and reflections.” The speech, which became widely known simply as Regensburg, has long […]
Yes, that’s a somewhat snarky headline. And, yes, it plays on the common (and not entirely incorrect) notion that Catholics tend to be rather lacking in their knowledge of Sacred Scripture. Of course, Catholics should […]
Editor’s note: This essay was originally written and posted on September 11, 2012. ————- I hadn’t planned on writing much, if anything, on the anniversary of the murderous attacks of September 11, 2001, if only […]
In his Message for the Celebration of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis suggests adding two “works of mercy” to the traditional lists of the seven Spiritual Works of Mercy […]
Let’s start with a surprising statistic: Pope Francis’ recent September 1st Message “For the Celebration of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” contains, by my unscientific count, thirteen references to “sin”, […]
Fr. Fessio, the founder and editor of Ignatius Press, was recently interviewed by Sean Salai, S.J. for America magazine about DOCAT, the follow-up to the popular youth catechism YOUCAT. Focused on the social doctrine of […]
The war in Syria is in its fifth year and is now almost entirely focused on once-beautiful Aleppo, the country’s biggest city, and—before the war—also the biggest manufacturing center of the Middle East. According to […]
In recent months, some prominent Catholics have taken pains to emphasize the supposedly special ties between Islam and Catholicism. In an editorial for The Angelus, the Los Angeles archdiocesan newspaper, Fr. Ronald Rolheiser called for […]
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