For better or for worse? Really? With so many mixed messages in our culture that speak to the contrary, how many young adults understand that dating should be for the purpose of finding a spouse? […]
When conservative Christian leaders in America woke up the morning after the Supreme Court ruled abortion to be a constitutional right with its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, they realized their opponent had engineered […]
Mary Wagner—winsome, slender, soft-spoken, former postulant to the Sisters of St. John, serial offender—makes an unlikely jailbird. Last month the 40-year-old pro-life crusader was released from a Toronto-area maximum security after 22 months awaiting trial, […]
The family, marriage, religious freedom, and evangelization were linked in the discussions and action items of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) at their Spring General Assembly, held in New Orleans June 10-13. Only […]
“Six priests walking into a bar…” could open a joke. But on a Friday night in May, a Dominican and five diocesan priests walked into a Dave and Busters in Providence Place Mall to share […]
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 […]
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 […]
Many diocesan seminaries will not accept older applicants to the priesthood, and often with good reason. An older man can have greater difficulty in meeting the demands of the priesthood or giving up the freedom or […]
Americans have seen abortion repackaged as a “choice.” They are witnessing an ongoing attempt to redefine marriage to include same-sex arrangements. Now they are being told that physician-assisted suicide is not actually suicide. In Connecticut’s […]
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