President Biden’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia was so fraught with controversy, his administration decided it was necessary to defend himself with an op-ed in the Washington Post. That didn’t stop liberal corporate media — […]
A vital issue was conspicuously ignored when, on June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, by its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturned its half-century-old decision in Roe v. Wade. What […]
The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) was a unique ecumenical council. The previous twenty were assembled to address particular doctrinal or ecclesial crises, while John XXIII called Vatican II to layout a new pastoral program for […]
June 21, 2022, will go down in American educational history as a banner-day for parental rights in education and for the full flowering of the free exercise of religion. On that date, the Supreme Court […]
“One third of all pregnancies in Detroit ends in abortion.” Such was the shocking May 22, 2014 headline of the Detroit News in huge black letters above the fold. The article reported on statistics for […]
A consistory for the creation of new cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 5, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
Vatican City, May 30, 2022 / 05:15 am (CNA).
The consistory for the creation of cardinals on Aug. 27 is a ceremony that seems to mark t… […]
After one of the consistories earlier in Pope Francis’s pontificate, for which I did the radio commentary – maybe in 2016 but more likely the one in June of 2017, as the sun was bright […]
“What accounts for the Catholic Church’s recent focus on transgender people?” asks Father James Martin, S.J., in a May 17th essay at the new LGBTQ website, Outreach.faith, promoted by Martin and managed by America Magazine. […]
In 1845, President James K. Polk sent diplomat John Slidell to Mexico City to offer $30 million for New Mexico, California, and other territories north of the Rio Grande. Mexico refused the offer. A frustrated […]
The most striking thing about the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen, SDB, in Hong Kong on Wednesday is the anodyne statement from the Vatican regarding the news. At least, the muted response from Holy See […]
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