Let’s take a little detour away from that dense, yet strangely nebulous cloud of Synodality that looms ahead and set our sights, for just a moment on the other current attempt to diagnose and fix […]
The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on the final day of 2022 presents a continued opportunity to revisit and evaluate his legacy as a theologian, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the […]
Every now and then, major media outlets run breathless headlines about the discovery of Jesus’s remains or some other archeological find that supposedly disproves Christianity. As any faithful Christian could predict, such “discoveries” have never […]
In the midst of the carnage of two of the most seminal and tragic events in American history, God’s saving grace was made manifest by the presence of a Catholic priest. The Battle of Gettysburg […]
It’s always interesting when an historian puts his pen to telling us about another historian. And the current effort is no exception. First off, however, let’s get some unpleasant material out of the way. The […]
One hundred twenty-five years ago, on September 5, 1898, Pope Leo XIII issued Diuturni temporis (“Of a long time”), the last of his dozen Rosary encyclicals. Pope Leo was eighty-eight years old and had reigned […]
The powers of the soul; the will of God or individual will? In the First Exercise of the Spiritual Exercises (paras. 45-54), St. Ignatius of Loyola speaks of the “three powers of the soul”: memory, […]
Here a scandal, there a scandal, and pretty soon you’re talking real depravity. As the Church shudders almost daily from new stories of corruption, the faithful wonder if this is the worst ecclesiastical era ever. […]
This year marks the 550th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus’ birth and the 480th of his death. This provides an opportunity to debunk some of the myths regarding the relationship of the great scientist, thanks to […]
“I went and said, ‘Sister, Sister, I’m here! What can I do?’ And boy, did she put me to work!” Nicole Bernardi-Reis was reminiscing about Honduran Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, her friend and mentor—and the […]
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