Bryan, Texas – Wendy Davis and her supporters have either bought into a lie about abortion or mistakenly believe these clinics are safe places, but we have the truth, says former abortion clinic worker Abby […]
BOSTON – “Nature reveals God’s mind and imagination, and scripture reveals God’s heart and will,” says philosopher Peter Kreeft. But the “ability to read natural signs has decreased with the increase in the ability to […]
Claims that something is inevitable are generally of two kinds. Sometimes the claim is simply a statement of fact (“Inevitably, the sun will rise tomorrow”). Other times it expresses a wish or perhaps a fear […]
Veteran Italian journalist Sandro Magister offers some analysis worth pondering: Benedict XVI, in effect, was different. In spite of his meek appearance, he was often very explicit and direct in expressing his judgments and in […]
Why does it seem that orderly, prosperous, and well-run societies are usually less religious, but the less religious a society becomes the more disorderly it gets? The situation is complex, it’s hard to do comparisons, […]
Author, philosopher, and historian George Weigel has been in Ukraine, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Ukrainian Catholic University, delivered an address on Bl. John Paul II at an International Symposium at UCU […]
From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 9 July 2013 (VIS) – On the afternoon of Saturday 6 July in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall the Pope met with seminarians, novices and young people discerning their […]
First Things has posted an address, “Wisdom, Christian Witness, and the Year of Faith”, given yesterday by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput at the National Shrine, Washington, D.C., as part of the National Shrine’s Year of […]
Some films are unremittingly cheerful, and some are unremittingly dark. I prefer films that combine grit/darkness with virtue, even fragile virtue…not easy to pull off without the viewer having the sense of a manipulative deus […]
Ann Carey has written extensively about Catholic women religious for many years, publishing articles on the subject in the National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Crisis, and Catholic World Report. She has received Catholic Press Association awards […]
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