Lions of the Faith chronicles the lives of saints, martyrs, and heroes who were caught up in the struggle between Islam and Christianity that commenced in the seventh century and continues to this day. The 800 […]
Benjamin Wiker is a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, a contributor to Catholic World Report, and the author of several books, including the recently published Worshipping the State: How Liberalism […]
This weekend the Vatican held its “Day Celebrating Evangelium Vitae,” inspired by the 1995 encyclical on “The Gospel of Life” promulgated by Pope John Paul II. The event culminated with Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s […]
The Chinese dragon is not red, or green, or gold. It is iridescent, representing the expedient image that China’s leaders desire to present to the world, to entice or intimidate, to lure or frighten. Slow […]
MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (3 Reels out of 5) If you’re not in on the joke, Star Trek Into Darkness is a lot of fun. If you’re in on the joke, […]
Readings: 2 Sm 12:7-10, 13 Ps 32:1-2, 5, 7, 11 Gal 2:16, 19-21 Lk 7:36—8:3 or 7:36-50 What did the most famous king in the Old Testament and a poor, anonymous woman in the Gospels […]
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, recently permitted the United Methodist Church to celebrate an ordination service at the Catholic Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston. This event has set in motion a […]
Today is, as Brandon Vogt reminded me, the 77th anniversary of the death of G. K. Chesterton. As a sort of modest homage, here is an essay about Chesterton; it reflects briefly on a chapter […]
Today Pope Francis received Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury at the Vatican. It was the first time the two religious leaders met. From Catholic News Service’s report on the meeting: Meeting at the Vatican June […]
On April 11, 1963, The Beverly Hillbillies was the top television show in the United States, works by J. D. Salinger and John Steinbeck topped the fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists, and the lead headline […]
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