The bishops of Belgium “share the anguish” of the victims of two terrorist attacks in Brussels today, and have asked for prayers “in this dramatic new situation,” according to a statement. The attacks, which occurred […]
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 […]
The composer Frank La Rocca was born in New Jersey but has spent his adult life on the West Coast, having taught at California State University, East Bay from 1981 until his retirement in 2014. […]
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 […]
The recent film The Young Messiah has raised the question of what Jesus understood in his human knowledge. I have not seen the film and have no interest in defending it. However, the controversy it […]
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, 59, has served as archbishop of San Francisco since 2012. The archdiocese is home to 90 parishes, 248 diocesan priests, and 450,000 Catholics. It has a rich tradition dating back to California’s […]
News that Pope Francis will travel to Sweden in October for an event marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation underlines the fact that the Catholic Counter-Reformation is over. Whether Protestants are prepared to […]
It is celebrated, world-wide, every year in more countries and continents than any other saint’s feast day. And not just in the Catholic Church, but in the Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox, and Lutheran Churches […]
On September 24, 1949, Georgii Karpov, chairman of the agency that provided “liaison” to the Russian Orthodox Church for the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, wrote Josef Stalin and his chief henchmen a confidential letter […]
Whatever your views on Donald Trump, it is wrong to put the burden of responsibility on him for the violence at his Chicago rally on Friday. According to the mainstream media’s explanation, the clashes inside […]
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