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SCOTUS reviews New Jersey’s fishing expedition against pro-life centers

On December 2, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in First Choice Women’s Resource Center v. Platkin, a potentially far-reaching dispute over whether public officials [...]
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Our Lady of Loreto and the continual graces of the Annunciation

Today marks an important Marian feast arising from the devotional life of the Church and especially of the lay faithful, the feast of Our Lady [...]
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Rome and the Church in the United States

Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who confirmed my father, was a pugnacious Irishman with a taste for shocking people via undiplomatic language. In a [...]
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Mariologists Respond – “In a lengthy response, the International Marian Association Theological Commission highlights what it sees as significant errors and omissions in the Vatican’s [...]
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Rights group criticizes Bishop Kukah over comments about genocide in Nigeria

The Executive Director of the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), Emeka Umeagbalasi, has strongly criticized Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, [...]

Rome and the Church in the United States

Features

George Weigel December 10, 2025 17

Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who confirmed my father, was a pugnacious Irishman with a taste for shocking people via undiplomatic language. In a conversation with the great historian John Tracy Ellis, Curley, who [...]

Rights group criticizes Bishop Kukah over comments about genocide in Nigeria

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Ngala Killian Chimtom December 9, 2025 4

The Executive Director of the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), Emeka Umeagbalasi, has strongly criticized Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, questioning the cleric’s impartiality in addressing claims of a Christian [...]

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Vatican II at 60

Larry Chapp December 8, 2025 58

Today is the 60th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council—and one can be excused perhaps for feeling a little exhausted by the entire topic. After all, it was a council that, by [...]

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Mary’s Immaculate Conception, explained by the Saints

Dawn Beutner December 8, 2025 56

The world was shocked when Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854. While Protestants rejected the teaching outright, even many Catholics objected to the pope’s decision. Exalting the role of [...]

Essay

The Artificial God

Michael Hanby December 7, 2025 9

Modern politics began in the seventeenth century with a technological ambition: to build an “artificial man, though of greater stature and strength than the natural,” an “automaton that moves by springs and wheeles as doth [...]

Columns

What Benedict XVI taught us about Israel—and why it matters now

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. December 6, 2025 54

When devout Catholic young people start approaching you, troubled by the possibility that God has abandoned the Jews and that they somehow stand behind our social ills, it becomes clear that something has gone deeply [...]

Analysis

Artificial Womb Technology: Daedalus Revisited

Sister Renée Mirkes December 4, 2025 13

On May 30, 2025, Japanese researchers at Juntendo University (Bunkyō, Tokyo) pulled back the curtain on their model of artificial womb technology (AWT). Dubbed the EVE therapy system, this artificial womb, after being successfully tested [...]

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Faith here and now

James Kalb December 3, 2025 4

Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” He was largely right. Not all Americans buy into the whole of our national creed, but it’s real, and it dominates public life. It [...]

Vatican II at 60

Larry Chapp December 8, 2025 58

Today is the 60th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council—and one can be excused perhaps for feeling a little exhausted by the entire topic. After all, it was a council that, by [...]
What Benedict XVI taught us about Israel—and why it matters now

Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. December 6, 2025 54
Faith here and now

James Kalb December 3, 2025 4

The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

Carl E. Olson November 4, 2025 146

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with [...]
The Future of Synodality

Carl E. Olson September 7, 2025 54
Liberal Catholic slanders and the election of 2024

Carl E. Olson November 20, 2024 130

SCOTUS reviews New Jersey’s fishing expedition against pro-life centers

Our Lady of Loreto and the continual graces of the Annunciation

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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Rights group criticizes Bishop Kukah over comments about genocide in Nigeria

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