Father Joseph Illo is planning to open the San Francisco Oratory of St. Philip Neri, an institute in the Catholic Church which allows “secular” parish priests the opportunity to live in community under a rule […]
Call it happy talk, call it spin, call it the devil’s handiwork—you find cheerful blather just about everywhere today. In politics (tell the voters what they want to hear). In business (keep the stockholders happy, […]
Scholar and author Robert R. Reilly was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy (2002-2006) for the U.S. Secretary of Defense, after which he taught at National Defense University. He was the director of the Voice of […]
Post-traumatic stress. Amputations and brain injuries. High suicide rates. Can any good news come out of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? The effects of our recent military engagements in the Middle East are long-lasting. Though […]
Jerusalem, Israel, May 25, 2014 / 11:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).– In a declaration delivered at the end of a private meeting, Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I marked a new step […]
With the pope of Rome and the patriarch of Constantinople going to Jerusalem this weekend, there is naturally a great deal of conversation and consideration of where Orthodox and Catholic Christians have been and where […]
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” — Albert […]
When the Irish Government announced in November 2011 that it would close the Embassy to the Vatican, it marked an all-time low in relations between the traditionally staunchly Catholic country and the Holy See. It […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (4 Reels out of 5) Godzilla films can be placed in two camps. The first involves Godzilla as a destructive force of nature leveling retributive justice on […]
Shortly after Christmas, I was invited to take part in a “friendly discussion” at the monthly meeting of a local chapter of self-described “freethinkers.” I’m not sure how they decided to approach me. Possibly they […]
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