The Catholic Church is hemorrhaging young people. Half of young Americans (50 percent exactly) who were raised Catholic no longer identify as Catholic today. Four out of five Catholics who left the Church left before […]
On November 14, Pope Francis will meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the Vatican. It will be the first time a pope has met with a head of the Islamic Republic since Pope St. […]
Editor’s note: The following interview was originally published on the Ignatius Press Novels website, which features reviews, interviews, and other information about Catholic fiction and novelists. Earlier this year, it was announced that the first annual […]
Several years ago, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based summer seminar on Catholic social doctrine, made a trenchant observation about the city John Paul II used to […]
This year the Brotherhood of Hope, a community of religious brothers who evangelize college students at secular schools, is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its founding and the 50th anniversary of the ordination of its […]
René Girard, one of the most influential Catholic philosophers in the world, died last week at the age of 91. Born in Avignon and a member of the illustrious Academie Francaise, Girard nevertheless made his […]
It’s hard to say what exactly happened here. When the Bond reboot of the Daniel Craig era began with Casino Royale there was a sense that while all the trappings of the cinema icon were […]
The fourth Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage recently brought to Rome more than one thousand tradition-minded Catholics from around the world October 22-25, 2015. The pilgrimage concluded on Sunday, October 25 with a late-morning Pontifical Mass for […]
A batch of recent articles by solid Catholic writers assures worried readers that Pope Francis has not changed Church doctrine on the permanence of marriage—which he has not, of course, though I guess some rattled Catholics […]
With the recent legalization of “same-sex marriage” in Ireland earlier this year, the sexual revolutionaries feel they have the momentum to decriminalize abortion on the Emerald Isle. Abortion is prohibited under the Constitution’s eighth amendment, which […]
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