At a news conference on Friday, May 4, 2012, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia announced that “the work of the special team investigating the 26 priests publicly placed on leave by Cardinal Rigali last year […]
A recent editorial by Fr. Michel Simoulin, SSPX, answers several objections of Traditionalist “hard-liners” to the current negotiations between the Society of Saint Pius X and the Holy See and describes the prospect of reunion […]
Gloomy news about the Church makes national headlines, but a story about a turn for the better gets buried in section two or goes unreported. The April issue of Phaith, the magazine of the Catholic […]
This just in from the Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 18 April 2012 (VIS) – The Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”, today released the following communiqué: “On 17 April, as requested during the 16 March […]
Almost fifty years ago, the writings on religious pluralism of an American Jesuit, John Courtney Murray, helped the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council to draft a Declaration on Religious Liberty in a world where […]
40 Days for Life is a grass-roots movement to end abortion through prayer and fasting, constant vigil at places where preborn children are aborted, and community outreach to educate and mobilize the public. Nine coordinated […]
“The Ugly American” has taken on new meaning since the 1958 political novel by the same name about U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. “Rude” and “ostentatiously wealthy” does not begin to describe the impression that […]
An Italian Catholic journalist and author “reported” last week in La Stampa that the Pope will “almost certain”-ly appoint, as the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Bishop Gerhard Ludwig […]
October Baby is a remarkable work of art, a ground-breaking film that sympathetically introduces the human beings involved in a very sad but ultimately uplifting story about abortion and adoption. The film begins with […]
Today the Vatican issued a press release entitled “Meeting Between the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, March 16, 2012” […]
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