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The Killer and the Saint: Pranzini and Thérèse
The sensational story of the murderous Pranzini would inspire the young saint to adopt her “first sinner.” […]
Articles by K. V. Turley
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Padre Pio and the Miracle Man of Belfast
The car sped through Belfast, past political slogans, past houses haunted by death, past the ghosts of the slain whose blood still cries out for vengeance, on it drove. My memory shifted to some of […]
Features
Catholic. 100% Pro-life. Feminist.
British writer Fiorella Nash is a pro-life feminist. Her latest book, The Abolition of Woman: How Radical Feminism Is Betraying Women (Ignatius Press) is the result of ten years researching life issues from a feminist […]
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May 25th was the burial, not the death, of “Catholic Ireland”
Today, it is clear that Ireland does not have the political or media outlets to oppose the liberal agenda currently unleashed on the Irish people. […]
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A tale of two countries, a choice between two cultures
Ireland has forgotten or become blind to how much good has been done since a protection for mother and unborn child was enshrined in its […]
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“Deliver Us” documents exorcisms while avoiding clichés and sensationalism
Throughout Deliver Us the tone is a correct one: sober, measured, open. The filmmakers capture the film’s subjects—both exorcists and those seeking deliverance—in a way that […]
Books
The Monk and the Immaculate One: “You will never say enough about Mary”
A visit with Dom Xavier Perrin, the abbot of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight and author of a new book on the Immaculate Conception. […]
Interview
The Creative Catholic: Sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz
“Art is a great analogy for life,” says sculptor Schmalz. “You need to have an epic subject and do the laborious task of bringing it […]
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In the eye of the media storm: A UK pro-lifer gives her witness
The verbal abuse at vigils and the vilification in the media, Clare McCullough maintains, are nothing compared to the spiritual attacks that, from time to time, […]
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St. Giuseppe Moscati and the Vocation of the Laity
The life of the 20th-century Italian doctor and saint was, as Antonio Tripodoro’s biography demonstrates, a fusion of the secular and the spiritual, of the […]