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Where infants are baptized: A look at the numbers

June 3, 2025 J. J. Ziegler 14

According to data published in the most recent (2024) edition of The Official Catholic Directory, 480,905 infant baptisms took place in the previous year in the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States. In the Code […]

Essay

Why a bishop’s preferences can never become law

June 2, 2025 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 99

By now, many readers will have heard about the draft liturgical policy,“‘Go In Peace, Glorifying the Lord By Your Life’: A Pastoral Letter on the Celebration of the Liturgy”, produced by Bishop Michael Martin of […]

Books

The sexual revolution Is undermined by its own triumph

June 1, 2025 Carl E. Olson, Nathanael Blake 29

Many books and essays have looked at the many cultural, social, and historical aspects of the Sexual Revolution. But few have delved into the destruction and suffering caused by that revolution, and have provided a […]

Analysis

The use of human “bodyoids”: An alarming proposal

May 31, 2025 Matthew Nelson 15

Many of us know someone—and perhaps that “someone” is you—whose life depended on an organ transplant. Many also know how challenging it can be to procure a needed organ and receive it in time for […]

Books

“I am Joan and I love you”

May 30, 2025 Sandra Miesel 10

There had to be men and women saints of all kinds. And today. . . we ought perhaps to have saints of yet another kind. — Charles Peguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan […]

Essay

The Ascension opens the doors to heaven to those who follow Christ

May 29, 2025 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 3

The Jesus of the Northeast, the Eastern Catholics, and those of the Anglican Ordinariate (and a few other ecclesiastical jurisdictions around the country) always catches His flight to Heaven on time, while His flight home […]

Books

Peter Kreeft’s spiritual autobiography is insightful and entertaining

May 28, 2025 Casey Chalk 12

Unless you pay much attention to the tiny subculture that is Catholic-Calvinist ecumenical debate and apologetics, you likely wouldn’t know that the discussions can get quite heated and personal. When one respected Presbyterian pastor and […]

Analysis

Education and parents’ rights a century after Pierce v. Society of Sisters

May 26, 2025 John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. 8

June 1, 2025, marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (268 US 510). What’s that, you ask? And why should I care? Pierce was a unanimous Supreme […]

Features

Remembering three martyrs 80 years after the end of World War II

May 25, 2025 Filip Mazurczak 1

May 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost. Today, our world is once again […]

Essay

At a Secular University: Does God Talk to People?

May 24, 2025 Peter D. Beaulieu 6

Is it possible to detect the “tiny whispering sound” even at a secular university? Consider the story and influence of a particular Dominican priest, a convert whose evangelical spirit was a life ring at a […]

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