When my brother Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J. visited me not long ago at the mission parish here in Togo, West Africa, where I’ve served for the past seventeen years as a priest on loan from […]
Dioceses across the nation are preparing for the Easter Vigil and the welcoming of catechumens (those not yet baptized) and candidates (baptized and preparing to receive Confirmation and First Holy Communion). Some dioceses are preparing […]
I have always felt drawn to visit New Mexico ever since I read about its beautiful landscape and rich Catholic history in Willa Cather’s 1927 novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop. I finally made it […]
People usually rave about the Met. Many consider it, not without justification, to house the world’s greatest art collection. While Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado is also considered one of the world’s best art museums, […]
“A half-truth is worse than a lie and a half.” This Yiddish proverb perfectly describes the dishonest claims that the future Pope St. John Paul II covered up sexual abuse as Archbishop of Krakow (1962-1978), […]
A male-to-female “transgender” drag queen performer in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico has received a new baptismal certificate affirming his female self-identity, with the approval of an official of the city’s Catholic archdiocese. The issuance […]
The Catholic Church in Germany is not only facing its last synodal assembly in March 2023, but also its biggest decision on direction in many decades. Reconciling the driving forces there with the clear admonitions […]
The Diocese of Rome has issued its own statement regarding Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, the world-famous Jesuit artist-priest accused of serial sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse of at least nine women over a period […]
What is the doctrinal status of the Church’s teaching against contraception? How is Catholic teaching on contraception supported by Scripture, Christian anthropology, and the natural law? What is meant by the “radical paradigm change” mentioned […]
A strange sense of beautiful abandonment accompanied me as I passed between the soundless cloisters of the Cistercian monastery Santa María la Real de Oseira in north-western Spain. One cloister was overrun with purple lavender flowers, […]
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