Interview
Spiritual Healing After Sexual Abuse
Dawn Eden sees herself as a missionary. Herself a victim of sexual abuse as a child, abuse that was healed in part through her journey of faith, she now envisions bringing God’s healing to other […]
“They Preach Christ’s Gospel of Peace and Justice”
The Reverend Doctor Athanasius D. McVay specializes in the 20th-century history of Vatican diplomacy and of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He co-edited a publication of Vatican archival documents on the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine in […]
A New Religious Community Takes Root in Santa Rosa
In Northern California, the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa are preparing to receive their first three postulants on February 2. The new community of four perpetually professed sisters was established as an Association of the […]
Fostering a Culture of Vocation and Evangelization in Vancouver, BC
Archbishop J. Michael Miller of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada celebrated the 10th anniversary of his episcopal ordination on Sunday, January 12. Archbishop Miller, 67, was born in Ottawa. He joined the Basilian Fathers, who once had a significant […]
Life, Literature, and the Horror of Abortion
In his new book, Culture and Abortion (Gracewing, 2013), Edward Short examines the evil of abortion through the lens of literature and culture. “What I have sought to do,” he writes in the introduction, is […]
Faithful and Counter-Cultural: What Attracts Young Men to the Priesthood Today
Anne Hendershott, professor of sociology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Christopher White, director of education and programs at the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, are two longtime contributors to Catholic World Report who […]
The Bishops and Catholic Hospitals Under Fire
On Monday, December 2 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on behalf of a woman who says that she did not receive adequate […]
The Liturgy, Fifty Years after Sacrosanctum Concilium
Fifty years ago today, December 4, 1963, Pope Paul VI solemnly promulgated the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. To mark the 50th anniversary of this significant document, Catholic World Report […]
Traditional Liturgy Flourishing in the Bible Belt
This September marked the sixth anniversary of the implementation of Summorum Pontificum, the motu proprio of Pope Benedict XVI that provided juridical recourse to Catholic laymen interested in receiving regular access to the traditional Latin […]
