Joseph Ratzinger didn’t want to be pope. He didn’t even want to be a bishop. When, in 1977, the apostolic nuncio informed him of his appointment as archbishop of Munich and Freising, he first requested […]
Early twentieth-century Danish painter Einar Wegener enjoyed dressing in women’s clothes—a habit he developed when he would don the apparel of his wife, a fellow artist, and model for her. In time, encouraged by his […]
Some Protestants know they have an authority problem. They know that exclusive reliance on a book (the Bible) as the sole manifestation of infallible teaching fosters a scenario in which there is no authoritative means […]
Why do Protestants convert to Catholicism? If you’ve watched even a few episodes of Marcus Grodi’s “Journey Home” on EWTN, or read conversion stories from the likes of Scott Hahn, Francis Beckwith, Thomas Howard, Fr. […]
Earlier this year, my wife attended a baby shower for a woman having her first child. My wife, a mother of five children, was a bit of an outlier in a crowd of female professionals, […]
In 2017, nationally syndicated radio host Hank Hanegraaff and his wife converted to Orthodox Christianity at St. Niktarios Greek Orthodox Church. That name may not mean anything to most Catholics, but to former Evangelicals such […]
When my wife and I moved our young family to Thailand almost ten years ago, the most obvious choice for our church was an English-speaking Redemptorist parish in downtown Bangkok, a stone’s throw from the […]
Recently I had the pleasure of spending an evening over drinks with two former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormons. Both men had completed their two-year […]
Maryland was the first American colony to welcome Catholic immigrants. In 1634, the Ark and the Dove, carrying Catholic settlers and priests, arrived in the nascent Chesapeake colony. Maryland’s most prestigious early family, the Calverts, […]
“Can’t you see, this is me, I’m a woman,” sang musical superstar Tina Turner. None of the obituaries or commemorations of Ms. Turner, who died recently at age 83, seem to have any doubt that […]
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