Alejandro Iñárritu’s new film The Revenant is one of the most talked about movies, and for good reason. The opening twenty minutes, which feature a frighteningly realistic Indian attack and a horrifically vivid mauling by a grizzly […]
Bishop Rene Henry Gracida, the retired Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, has released his autobiography, An Ordinary’s Not So Ordinary Life, available through Amazon.com. The book shares the bishop’s amazing story, including his growing up […]
While the Church faces serious demographic and geographic challenges that have required parish closings in urban cores of cities in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, there is reason for optimism among Catholics in the U.S. […]
Readings for Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016: • Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 40:1-5, 9-11 • Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-2, 3-4, 24-25, 27-28, 29-30 • Acts 10:34-38 or Or Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7 […]
On December 7, 1990, less than a year after dismantling of the notorious Berlin Wall started, I gave a talk entitled “A New Political World Disorder?” at a prestigious international colloquium whose chief topic was […]
The day after President Obama announced his executive actions on control measures, an editorial headline in the San Jose Mercury News (Jan. 6) read as follows: “Obama’s executive order on guns came only after Congress […]
The potential presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, a media critic when it suits his purposes, is a creature of the media. Trump has a knack for saying outrageous things, and journalists have heaped lavish free […]
On the surface, news in 2015 about United States women religious appeared to be far more positive than in previous years: • The Vatican’s unprecedented apostolic visitation of women’s religious orders had concluded amicably in […]
Editor’s note: Catholic World Report recently held an essay contest for students at Ave Maria University in Florida, in which students were asked to reflect upon the main themes of last October’s Synod on the […]
To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign – will be over in eleven months, or at least suspended for a year or so. […]
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