Bob Laird remembers the day the woman first came to Divine Mercy Care’s Tepeyac Family Center, a Catholic OB-GYN service in Fairfax, Va. She was fearful that she had already lost her child. “She had […]
Choosing an ambassador to represent the United States at the Holy See is usually a fairly straight-forward process. Since formal diplomatic relations were established in 1984, successive US governments have appointed committed Catholics to the […]
On May 17, Notre Dame conferred upon Barack Obama an honorary law degree even as the US president geared up to pass more laws that would violate fundamental moral teachings of the Church. Thunderous applause […]
On June 5 Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, received Bishop Bernard Fellay, general superior of the Society of St. Pius X, to discuss a draft document clarifying […]
What are Christians supposed to believe about Islam? And why does it matter? Judging from President Barack Obama’s Cairo speech last June the proper attitude toward Islam should be one of great respect. Obama paid […]
In late January of 2009, less than a week after Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications on the four bishops who had been consecrated illicitly by Archbishop Lefèbvre in 1988, the German-speaking, leftist-liberal, “grassroots” Catholic […]
As a senator, Barack Obama received a 100 percent voting rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League. The Catholic Church gives no such rating to politicians, but if one were to construct a similar […]
On July 7, Pope Benedict XVI published his third encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, addressed to “the bishops, priests, and deacons, men and women religious, the lay faithful, and all people of good will on integral […]
Among the great filmmakers of the 20th century, Ingmar Bergman stands out as the director with the greatest interest in raising the big questions about God, death, guilt, love, and forgiveness. Two years after his […]
Leprosy is an ancient horror. For millennia, people feared and shunned the ravaged bodies of lepers as “unclean.” A few dared to show compassion: St. Francis of Assisi famously kissed a leper for the sake […]
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