Sex and the institutions, customs, and restraints related to it are basic to social order. That claim shouldn’t be controversial, and it’s odd that it has become so. Older political philosophers such as Aristotle, who […]
MPAA Rating, R USCCB Rating, O Reel Rating: (2 Reels out of 5) At the very opening of Don Jon, Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) candidly declares that “porn is better than sex.” It’s a shocking statement […]
Terry Barber, 56, grew up in the Los Angeles area, and enjoyed a successful career in real estate. In fact, by age 25, he’d acquired enough property to comfortably retire. So, he decided he’d focus […]
Less than two weeks after the release of a headline-grabbing interview in Civilta Cattolica and other Jesuit publications around the world, yet another interview with Pope Francis was published today, this time in the Italian […]
Editor’s note: The following is the complete 6,000-word-long interview with author and radio host Al Kresta, given to John Burger in the course of the researching and writing of the profile, “Al Kresta: Missionary Looking […]
From Vatican Radio: Pope Francis on Monday morning held the Public Ordinary Consistory for the forthcoming Canonization of Blessed Pope John XXIII and Blessed Pope John Paul II. During the course of the Consistory in […]
“If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer. Do not become upset or […]
Hugh F. Lena, the Provost of Providence College, has announced that a debate between John Corvino, a noted proponent of same-sex marriage, and Sherif Girgis, one of the co-authors of the book, What Is Marriage?: […]
This week the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty announced that it has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor against the HHS mandate, which requires that employers pay for contraception […]
Michael Haag, The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States (Harper: New York, 2013) 448 pp, paperback, $16.99 Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c. 1070-1309 (Palgrave Macmillan: […]
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