Twenty years after the U.S. Bishops implemented the Dallas Charter, a nationwide policy for handling accusations of clerical abuse, priests still feel the effects. One of the most compelling problems identified in a landmark survey […]
“This Dust Was Once the Man,” wrote the poet Walt Whitman in 1871. Whitman was eulogizing President Abraham Lincoln, who had died just six years before. In his poem, he acknowledged what we all know: […]
When English author Mary Shelley published her novel Frankenstein in 1818, the world saw her lead character, scientist Victor Frankenstein, for what he was: a wildly misguided and sinister researcher whose work would upset the […]
Moms and Dads: Are you looking for a great gift idea for that young single woman in your family? Comedian/actress Mindy Kaling has an idea! Why not, Mindy says, instead of just wrapping a pair […]
Pro-lifers in South Carolina were jubilant when the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act took effect in their state on June 27, making abortion illegal after six weeks gestation; but their joy was short-lived. […]
Our souls demand Purgatory, don’t they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, “It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but […]
Dotting the mountaintops of Europe, stretching 2,500 miles and aligned like pearls on a string, lie seven ancient monasteries. Some of the historic structures still house the cloistered religious orders which founded them, hundreds of […]
On May 1, Catholics across the state of Louisiana celebrated the first official “St. Joseph the Worker Day” – honoring Jesus’ earthly foster father, while also honoring the important contributions of laborers from across the […]
There have been some reports in the news lately about relics arriving on U.S. soil. On April 3, a relic of Blessed Carlos Acutis, the first millennial to be beatified, arrived in New York. The […]
I confess: I’ve already seen Father Stu, the much anticipated film scheduled for release this week from Sony Pictures. I’ve seen it twice, in fact – and I loved it! So when I was invited […]
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