Arguably not since Pope St. Pius V, who created the Holy League states that defeated the Ottoman Turks during the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, has any pope influenced world politics as profoundly as St. […]
While the dominant narrative in the West since the Enlightenment has been that religion is obscurantist and hostile to science, until the twentieth century, it was in the Christian West where the most important scientific […]
Over the years, recurring accusations have been made in the media in Poland and elsewhere that Cardinal Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, had covered up cases of clerical sexual abuse and had […]
Polish archbishop Antoni Baraniak was beaten, starved, and interrogated 145 times by the Stalinist regime — and never yielded. […]
Niels Arboel’s The Wonder of Creation: The Most Famous Christian Biologists in History is a masterpiece of intellectual history. Of all the natural sciences, perhaps biology is most often seen as at odds with traditional religious faith. […]
The horrors of twentieth-century totalitarianism caused many to ask the ancient question of how a loving God could allow His children to suffer. Writer and director Anthony D’Ambrosio’s new film, Triumph of the Heart, depicts […]
May 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost. Today, our world is once again […]
On January 16, eccentric filmmaker David Lynch passed away at seventy-eight. While Lynch was known for bizarre, experimental, and polarizing work, his 1999 film The Straight Story is one of the most beautiful and profoundly Christian films […]
Ronald Wilson Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, was one of the great leaders of the twentieth century. His bold defense policy, rejection of détente, and support for anti-communist freedom fighters, […]
On September 9-11, Pope Francis is visiting the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor. Thirty-five years earlier, in 1989, that nation–then amidst a military occupation by Indonesia that many scholars consider it to be […]
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