While many of us choose to abstain from coffee, sweets, or Facebook for Lent, we can often hear priests tell us in their homilies that rather than giving up something, it is better to do […]
Pope Francis has frequently spoken of an “ecumenism of the blood.” Today, Christians are being persecuted and exterminated solely for professing belief in Christ in the Middle East and many parts of Africa and Asia, […]
Martin Scorsese’s latest film, his adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence, has provoked mixed reactions from Catholic reviewers, from adulation to criticism. Indeed, the film—which deals with Jesuit missionaries in Japan during times of extreme […]
When Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz turned 75 in 2014, Pope Francis extended his tenure. The conventional wisdom was that the pope wanted to keep Dziwisz in Krakow until World Youth Day was held in the city […]
Today it seems like hardly a week goes by in which we don’t read about another traditionally Christian country adopting laws hostile to life, the family, or religious liberty. Meanwhile, parish closings have become everyday […]
Today, we celebrate the feast day of Pope St. John Paul II, whose pontificate was the third-longest ever and who was canonized just nine years after his death, making his the shortest canonization cause in […]
Based on his numerous personnel appointments, it is clear what type of Church leadership Pope Francis prefers. American Catholics have learned this through the election of Blaise Cupich as Archbishop of Chicago and his imminent […]
Since the collapse of communism, Polish legislation has become among the most pro-life in Europe. Concurrently, popular support for abortion in Poland has plummeted, and the pro-life movement there is arguably the strongest on the […]
Now that World Youth Day 2016 is in the past, the dust has settled, the many international pilgrims who visited Poland are returning home, and Krakow is cleaning up after and transitioning back to everyday […]
In Krakow, I have spoken to many veterans of previous editions of World Youth Day. Although most of them were very young when Pope St. John Paul II died, they are nonetheless a “JP2 Generation” […]
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