Acceding to the request of many Middle Eastern bishops, Pope Benedict announced in September 2009 that a Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East would take place in October 2010. After […]
The history of the Church in Spain is a history of evangelization, loss, reconquest, and blood. St. Torquatus and six other bishops preached the Gospel in Roman Spain, and soon saintly Catholics were suffering martyrdom […]
The Archdiocese of Detroit suffered steep losses between 1966 and 1976: in just a decade, the archdiocese lost 179 diocesan priests, 160 religious-order priests, and 1,439 women religious, according to statistics published in the Annuario […]
Charity in truth”—the title of Pope Benedict’s third encyclical—has been a dominant theme of the current pontificate. The question of how Catholics ought to live out this charity in truth with respect to Islam is […]
A part from the papacy, few doctrines divide the Catholic Church from non-Catholic ecclesial communities as does the doctrine of the indissolubility of a consummated Christian marriage. Eastern Orthodox Christians are permitt ed three marriages; […]
On the evening of August 23, 80-year-old Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, the leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP, or World Hindu Council) in Orissa who had spoken out against Hindu conversions to Christianity, was […]
In 1957, Pope Pius XII addressed an audience of anesthesiologists and answered three questions put to him by the University of Innsbruck’s Dr. Bruno Haid. The Pontiff’s answer to Dr. Haid’s third question set the […]
The deadliest fighting since World War II has not taken place during a major war like Korea or Vietnam, or in a well-known genocide like Cambodia’s or Darfur’s, but in a conflict that has received […]
The Roman Pontifex Maximus Julius Caesar, in words destined to be translated by generations of Latin students, observed that “all Gaul is divided into three parts.” Over two millennia later, during his apostolic journey to […]
For the 900,000 residents of the oilrich monarchy of Qatar—independent from Britain only since 1971— Doha is a thriving capital city, a modern business, education, and media center that serves as the headquarters of the […]
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