Jesus told His apostles: “You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved” (Matt 10: 22). It is difficult to think of another venerated Catholic […]
When the eremitic monk and reformer Peter Damian cast his critical gaze upon the Catholic Church of the mid-eleventh century, he encountered a panorama of corruption that would have appeared daunting even to the most […]
We’ve grown to think of our American experience of Halloween—with its focus on horror themes, costumes, candy, and decorations—as normative. In fact, it’s a product of the 20th century media-saturated consumer-oriented appropriation of Catholic feasts […]
On Sunday, Pope Francis will canonize seven new saints. The best-known of them are Pope Paul VI (1897-1978), who served the Church as supreme pontiff from 1963 to 1978, and Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980), the […]
“I entrust to the mercy of the Most High the helpless victims of this tragedy, for whom I offered Mass this morning, invoking upon them […]
The tantalizing lie of revolution is the idea that heaven-on-earth sits right around the corner, provided some hated class can be overthrown and then purged […]
On the bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth, the world should be excoriating his ideas and the terrorism they spawned, not excusing or celebrating them. […]
During Holy Week, we tend to forget the saints that may be on the calendar. Here a some you know well, along with a few […]
At this pivotal point in his life, when so many of his Catholic endeavors lay before him, Newman was transformed, becoming an English Catholic at home […]
The decades-long persecution of the Catholic Church in Albania by the Communist government provides a significant case for the Holy See to ponder. […]
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