On December 8, 2010, Green Bay Bishop David Ricken made Church history. On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, before an invitation-only congregation of 250 at the packed at the Shrine of Our Lady of […]
Pope Benedict XVI has to parcel out his time in such small bits that even heads of state normally get no more than a brief 20 minutes’ audience. But after the Holy Father announced the […]
Two years of bi-monthly meetings between panels of theologians representing the Society of St. Pius X and the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith have quietly concluded or come screeching to a halt, […]
Donna Steichen, age 81, is a prominent Catholic author and journalist. Originally from St. Cloud, Minnesota, today she lives in Ojai, California. She married her husband Roy 60 years ago, and the couple has four […]
Pope John Paul II “restored to Christianity its true face as a religion of hope,” Pope Benedict XVI said at the May 1 beatification of the Polish Pontiff. Well over one million people crowded into […]
“Here I stand,” said Martin Luther as he challenged teachings of the Catholic Church. “I can do no other.” The Australian Bishop William Morris sounded a similar note as news came in May that the […]
[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published one year ago in the May 2011 issue of Catholic World Report.] New York City is the abortion capital of America. More than 40 percent of pregnancies in […]
For decades conservatives have been marginalized in groups like the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), which do not even pretend to be hospitable to “all points of view.” People have been denied tenure, lost […]
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