Ridley Scott’s The Martian is a splendidly told tale of survival and pluck, reminiscent of the novel Robinson Crusoe and the films Life of Pi and Castaway. In this case, the hero is Mark Watney, […]
At a time when American public life appears to be increasingly forgetful of the local level of political and economic initiative, Pope Francis has issued a strong affirmation of the principle of subsidiarity at the […]
Today Pope Francis celebrated the Mass of Canonization for four new saints, including the married couple Louis and Zélie Martin, parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Below, via Vatican Radio, is a translation of the […]
With the Synod of Bishops meeting in Rome, the Church’s teaching on homosexuality is again a source of contentious debate. In essentials, this doctrine cannot change, but does the Church need to alter her tone […]
As Robert Hugh Benson’s apocalyptic novel Lord of the World moves toward its shocking conclusion, a naïve young woman who has placed simple-minded faith in the utter goodness of the Antichrist figure at the center […]
ROME. The great Piazza San Pietro is a five minute walk from where I’m living during Synod-2015. About three-quarters of the Square is bounded the famous Bernini colonnades, which reach out from the Vatican basilica as […]
International migration occurs in varied settings and raises a variety of issues, so much so that sorting them out would be difficult even if some of them weren’t so inflammatory. The issues are basic as […]
Having just returned from a week covering Pope Francis’s triumphant journey to the United States, I can confidently tell you that the news media are in love with the Vicar of Christ. Time and again, […]
Chesterton may not have been able to foretell the future but this essay—”The Surrender upon Sex”—indicates that he was surely prophetic. From the collection In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton: ——– […]
In The Martian, Matt Damon plays determined astronaut Mark Watney who, gravely injured and mistaken for dead, is left behind when his crewmates abort their mission on Mars. Alone and with limited resources, Watney is determined to […]
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