Four years after her death, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster has mystified the world. How could the body of a deceased Benedictine nun remain intact after years in a leaky coffin? After all, the mortician who arranged […]
One of the more widely accepted narratives of the modern world locates its origins in the 17th century with the emancipation of the natural sciences both from the antiquated natural philosophy and metaphysics of Aristotle […]
May 18, 2023 marks the 103rd anniversary of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II, who served as Archbishop of Krakow from 1964 to 1978. Much has been written about the Polish pope’s saintliness, […]
The lie known as the blood libel is the ugliest expression of antisemitism. It accuses Jews of kidnapping and murdering Christians to obtain their blood for magic, medicine, or matzoh-making. The victims—typically small boys—were not […]
At the start of the 1955 British film The Prisoner, a regal cardinal played by Alec Guinness finds Communist secret police waiting for him as he walks out of Mass in an anonymous Central European […]
Only Ireland, on the outer fringe of Western Europe, was left unconquered by the mighty Roman Empire. The weather was too rough (the Romans referred to the island as “Hibernia, Land of Winter”), and its […]
In 1985, Jaime Cardinal Sin, archbishop of Manilla, Philippines, visited China. As part of his “friendship visit,” as the Chinese government called it, Cardinal Sin requested permission to visit his fellow bishop, Ignatius Kung, who […]
Following the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court last June, many women of fame decried the limits on abortion and went on a sex strike, furiously uttering the slogan, “If our choices are denied, so […]
The story of the Catholic Church’s relationship with the secular state in modern times has been dramatic, often complex, and sometimes horrific. There have been periods of wonderful collaboration, but also of terrible and bloody […]
“They started with me on Diem, you remember: ‘He was corrupt, he ought to be killed,’ and so we killed him. We all got together and got a ***-damn bunch of thugs and assassinated him. […]
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