December 9 marks the anniversary of the death of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, one of the greatest evangelists of the twentieth century. Known above all for his pioneering work in radio and television—at the peak […]
On November 10, 1619, during a Saint Martin’s Eve celebration in Germany, a twenty-three-year-old French soldier slipped into a small room with a stove to do some thinking—and it changed the course of history. Philosophy, […]
Saint Jude, whose feast the Church celebrates on October 28, is known the world over for his patronage—that of hopeless causes—and for the Children’s Research Hospital named in his honor. But what some might not […]
“Pride Month” disappeared into the rearview mirror a month ago, so it’s easy to wonder whether it ever really arrived at all, so muted was the celebration this year. Over at Daily Wire, my colleague […]
John Green, the author of the mega-hit The Fault in Our Stars, recently posted a video titled “My Religion.” Green is, by all accounts, a tremendously successful and thoughtful man: He’s a New York Times bestselling author (with […]
Sixty years ago, on June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court in its Griswold v. Connecticut decision ruled against a state ban on contraception. This established the infamous “right to privacy” that was later used to […]
In 2023, the newly minted cardinal Robert Prevost was asked by CNS about comments he made a decade earlier on “beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel,” including abortion and the “homosexual lifestyle.” Had his views […]
In the interregnum between the death of Pope Francis and the conclave to elect his successor, a quotation from Pope Benedict XVI—then Cardinal Ratzinger—has been making the rounds on social media. It comes from a 1997 […]
The worlds of Catholic theology and philosophy can, at times, feel overwhelmingly vast. One could spend an entire lifetime studying just one or two thinkers, never mind the whole panoply of brilliance across two thousand […]
When Mufasa: The Lion King was released in theaters, I was unable to join our family in seeing it. But, almost immediately after, my wife and kids began drawing me into the world of its […]
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