“When we hear the bombs, I gather the children and we run to the bomb shelter,” said 32-year-old Josie, a member of the Karenni ethnic group who has been raising her family in a camp […]
While the need for a more faithful, more far-reaching, and more sustainable Catholic healthcare model has long been acknowledged, especially in circumstances in which the deficiencies of secular healthcare, especially with respect to life and […]
There aren’t many who would embrace a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience to serve an often-forgotten people in one of the hottest places in the United States. But that’s just what one of the […]
On May 23, Pope Francis approved a request by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to canonize eight Franciscan friars and three Maronite laymen martyred during the massacre of Christians in Damascus in July 1860. On July 1, […]
On the Feast of the Assumption next week, 383 members of the Sisters of Mary across the globe will celebrate sixty years of one of the greatest rescue movements for the poor, orphaned, and humiliated […]
On May 1, 2017, disgraced Catholic priest John Mattingly confessed to United States District Court Judge Deborah Chasanow to embezzling $400,000 from the parishioners of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Leonardtown, Maryland, where he […]
For centuries on end, Ireland remained a bedrock of Catholic faith, even through dire persecution. The little country at the edge of Europe became among the world’s leading exporters of missionaries. But, for almost five […]
Soaring voices descend from the galleries, where the echoes of unseen singers mix with the splendor of instruments which each, in turn, seem to outdo one another in magnificence; the subtle tinkling of lutes weaves […]
The Church of All Nations rises above the olive trees of the Garden of Gethsemane. Contained within is the rock upon which Jesus prayed and bled in agony as He consented to the Father’s will […]
As behavior protected by the Constitution and regulated by statute in every state, abortion cannot be defined as “public or private injury” As we have shown, the defendants’ contention that the fetus suffers great injury […]
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