London is a strange place, and the longer one lives in its shadows the stranger it seems to become. Commuting home, we hardly notice those sitting or standing around us, our hands so full of […]
Blessed John Paul II is sometimes remembered as a “saint maker” who canonized 482 men and women during his 27-year pontificate. Pope Francis, however, is an even more prodigious “saint maker” who has canonized more […]
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 […]
When the rumblings began that The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s prelude to his larger work, The Lord of The Rings, was coming to the big screen, I had reservations, but wasn’t put off entirely. After all, […]
Pity the poor Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, persecuted by heartless bureaucrats who despise all things preconciliar! Weep for their Superior General, put under house arrest, his councilors banished to Earth’s remotest ends! Woe to the […]
Christmas. It’s that time again. And where your ears are concerned, that’s not necessarily glad tidings. In a musical galaxy far, far away, holiday albums used to be considered a privilege of sorts—an artistic diversion […]
Readers of Blessed John Paul II’s documents have noted his frequent references to a sentence in Gaudium et Spes, the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: “man, who is […]
I recently returned from visiting Croatia, where a controversial referendum was held on December 1 amending the constitution to define marriage as a union of a man and a woman. The results surprised many foreign […]
The Duke of Wellington is reported to have said that the Battle of Waterloo was won long before on the playing fields of Eton. Alyssa Bormes doesn’t quite say that the Battle of Armageddon will […]
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 […]
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