US Catholics generally know little about the Church’s history in our country. But whether you’re trying to fill gaps in your knowledge or just looking for a good read, let me recommend a new book […]
In this age of Francis, in which the Holy Father seems to surprise everyone with his off-the-cuff pronouncements on matters of passionate intensity, we would do well to consider the work of David Craig, America’s […]
In 1980, as a priest not yet thirty years of age, I found myself placed in charge of developing local chapters of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights on the entire eastern seaboard. […]
If you want to be disillusioned, meet your idols. If the idol concerned is long dead, read the biography. Better still, read an unsatisfactory biography. For British Catholics, Evelyn Waugh along with Graham Greene occupies […]
“Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.” — Matthew 25:45 R.R. Reno is, of course, the estimable successor to […]
DOCAT, the follow-up and companion volume to the popular YOUCAT (Youth Catechism), was officially released yesterday at World Youth Day 2016 in Kraków, Poland. DOCAT (pronounced “do-cat”) is a popular adaptation of the social doctrine […]
I have heard Dr Helen Watt, who is Senior Research Fellow (and former Director) of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, address subjects such as fertility and IVF in lectures around the UK and was keen to […]
John Dougill’s In Search of Japan’s Hidden Christians: A Story of Secrecy, Suppression, and Survival is an impressive synthesis of existing histories of Japan’s fabled kakure-kirishitan community, crafted with the personal intimacy one would give […]
For three decades or more, Father George William Rutler has been an eloquent contributor to thought at the intersection—or is it the collision point?—where the secular meets with the divine. Ignatius Press has just published He […]
In less than three weeks, thousands of American pilgrims will travel to Krakow, Poland, to celebrate World Youth Day (July 25-31) with Pope Francis and millions of young Catholics. Others will take part in stateside […]
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