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 […]
“It is with great joy that I received the message announced today by Pope Francis that the next World Youth Day will take place in Poland in the year 2016,” said Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz the […]
In an interview with German journalist Michael Hesemann, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger—the older brother of Pope Emeritus Benedict—said that his brother’s literary work is complete and he will not be publishing anything else. He also said […]
“I’m passionate about messaging that’s fearless, factual, and freeing,” says Ryan Bomberger, the founder of the Radiance Foundation. Bomberger, whose mother was raped and gave him up for adoption, is challenging those who, he says, […]
Mothers have long believed, cultures have long taught, and research has repeatedly confirmed that an emotional network links pregnant moms to their babies. If mom is happy, the preborn baby is content. When mom is […]
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