In response to Pope Francis’ remarks to journalists concerning homosexuality last week, San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone issued the statement below, dated July 29: The whole Church owes a debt of gratitude to Pope Francis […]
The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate have issued a series of official statements correcting errors of fact made in the sensationalized coverage of the recent Vatican intervention in the government of their religious institute and […]
Jim Gaffigan is Catholic. As he wryly informs us, his wife is “Shiite Catholic.” Does that make his new book, Dad Is Fat, Catholic? Is he, as the Washington Post’s Michelle Boorstein put it, “the […]
Pope Francis recently addressed to the Brazilian bishops, saying, “The two disciples have left Jerusalem. They are leaving behind the ‘nakedness’ of God. They are scandalized by the failure of the Messiah in whom they had […]
Within weeks, hospitals in Ireland could, for the first time, begin performing abortions. It comes after Irish President Michael D. Higgins signed a controversial piece of legislation that the government insists allows for abortion only […]
My wife and I don’t watch television. That’s neither an apology nor a boast but only a statement of fact. We have no quarrel with people who do watch television. We just prefer doing other […]
On Saturday, August 3, 2013, the Ecclesia Dei Commission, the Vatican dicastery that supervises the observance and application of the norms in the 2007 motu proprio concerning the Traditional Latin Mass, welcomed back its secretary, Guido […]
Traditional theories of secularization maintain that religious decline led to the deterioration of the family. Not so, argues Mary Eberstadt in her new book How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization […]
In the week leading up to World Youth Day, their large-scale event called the MAGIS Experience was a unique opportunity for members of worldwide Jesuit universities to spread throughout Brazil and engage in various spiritual-based […]
“Pope Adopts a Milder Tone toward Gays and Women” — Headline, San Francisco Chronicle July 30, 2013. “Shift in Tone on Gays Thrills Local Catholics” — Headline, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2013. “Stunning Remarks […]
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