Opinion

Breaking the Code

March 24, 2016 William Kilpatrick 1

Two years after the Islamic jihadist attack on the World Trade Center, a book appeared which purported to reveal a conspiracy to cover up the truth about a major world religion. According to the book, […]

Essay

Easter is not a question mark

March 23, 2016 George Weigel 0

Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and I had attended a few months ago. The Tallis Scholars are a marvelous a capella ensemble, but most […]

Opinion

On sex abuse, has the pendulum swung too far?

March 22, 2016 Enza Ferreri 0

Last month Peter Saunders, the British man who founded and leads the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC), was removed from the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, “apparently following a […]

Special Report

Catholicism in Somalia: The Brave Few

March 20, 2016 R. Cavanaugh 0

When built in 1928, the Catholic cathedral in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital city, was the largest on the African continent. But more recent decades have not been kind to Somali Catholicism. In fact, the nation’s last […]