I met Mother Angelica only once. It was sixteen years ago. We spent an unforgettable hour together, just the two of us. What made it unusual was that several million people were watching and listening […]
Some seem upset that I agreed with Pope Francis that the Eucharist is “powerful medicine” for sinners, a figure of speech the pope used in Amoris laetitiae fn. 351 (see also his Evangelii gaudium 47). […]
MPAA Rating, PG USCCB Rating, A-II Reel Rating, The new sequel to 2014’s God’s Not Dead raises the stakes, as it moves the question of religious liberty in an increasingly secular culture from […]
At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with the Catholic Church. Each of them walked a unique itinerary […]
“Herein is the strength of the Catholic Church,” observed Blessed John Henry Newman, making a comparison to Protestantism, “She professes to be built upon facts, not opinions; on objective truths, not on variable sentiments; on […]
The Magisterium of the Catholic Church, the teaching authority left by Jesus Christ to his Church and principally exercised by popes and the college of bishops, proceeds in two ways: ordinarily, the Magisterium proceeds ‘ordinarily’; […]
On April 4, 2016 Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave an interview to Crux in which he ventured a guess at what Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia was going to be about. He predicted that it […]
As any apologist worth his/her salt will tell you, the great objection to the proposition that God exists is the fact of innocent suffering. If you want a particularly vivid presentation of this complaint, go on YouTube […]
Back in 1960s, numerous commentators were convinced beyond doubt that the world faced an overpopulation crisis. With infant mortality-rates shrinking as sanitation and nutrition-levels improved, many wondered if the planet had sufficient resources to sustain […]
In the current ecclesial climate it is difficult to avoid a political reading of Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. Almost any ‘party’ within and beyond the Church can no doubt find in it a […]
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