Books
A Black Legend Refuted
Of the eight Popes who shepherded the Church from 1903 to century’s end, none is so hotly disputed as Pius XII, who reigned from March 2nd, 1939 until his death on October 9th, 1958. At […]
Features
Books
Calling Men to a Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality
Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, known worldwide as the Dynamic Deacon, is a powerful speaker who has presented talks on marriage, family, and men’s spirituality all over the world. He is a passionate evangelist and preacher with […]
History
Historical Horse Sense
The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is considered to be the third holiest site in Islam. The current wave of stabbings, shootings, and car-ramming attacks on Israeli citizens are motivated in part […]
Interview
Fourth “Summorum Pontificum” pilgrimage begins tomorrow in Rome
The first international pilgrimage Summorum Pontificum, after Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s motu proprio that liberalized the celebration of the traditional Roman rite of the Mass in 2007, took place in 2012. The idea was to […]
Film & Music
“The Martian” and Why Each Life Matters
Ridley Scott’s The Martian is a splendidly told tale of survival and pluck, reminiscent of the novel Robinson Crusoe and the films Life of Pi and Castaway. In this case, the hero is Mark Watney, […]
Essay
“Spiritual Friendship” and Ministering to the Same-Sex Attracted
With the Synod of Bishops meeting in Rome, the Church’s teaching on homosexuality is again a source of contentious debate. In essentials, this doctrine cannot change, but does the Church need to alter her tone […]
Analysis
Assisted suicide: The nightmare has become the reality
As Robert Hugh Benson’s apocalyptic novel Lord of the World moves toward its shocking conclusion, a naïve young woman who has placed simple-minded faith in the utter goodness of the Antichrist figure at the center […]
Essay
Pius XII, co-conspirator in tyrannicide
ROME. The great Piazza San Pietro is a five minute walk from where I’m living during Synod-2015. About three-quarters of the Square is bounded the famous Bernini colonnades, which reach out from the Vatican basilica as […]
Opinion
Pope Francis and True Mercy
Having just returned from a week covering Pope Francis’s triumphant journey to the United States, I can confidently tell you that the news media are in love with the Vicar of Christ. Time and again, […]
Essay
“The Surrender upon Sex”: If G.K Chesterton were writing today…
Chesterton may not have been able to foretell the future but this essay—”The Surrender upon Sex”—indicates that he was surely prophetic. From the collection In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton: ——– […]