Joseph Pearce, as many who have read his work or seen him speak might testify, can give one the impression of a soft-handed, tweed-sporting, Oxford don who has spent the better part of his life […]
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has released the text of a letter sent to President Barack Obama voicing opposition to the president’s proposed military action in Syria. President Obama, who is in St. […]
The Church today has a troubled relation to the academy and media. The reasons are quite basic. Secular intellectual authorities believe they stand for a way of understanding the world, free unprejudiced inquiry carried on […]
Recently I read about a group in Switzerland that’s agitating to remove all reference to God from the Swiss national anthem. Since the national anthem of the United States says nary a word about God, […]
It would be easy to pick on Miley Cyrus, she being the One Who Would Writhe Her Way to the Twerking Throne. It would also be easy, and understandable, to lament her recent—what shall we […]
Robert R. Reilly is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. He has taught at the National Defense University and has written for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Claremont Review of Books, […]
Cardinal Bertone, who was Vatican Secretary of State under Pope Benedict XVI (he was appointed in 2006), is not going quietly, according to a report in The Guardian, which in turn cites a story in […]
St. Augustine is famous for having prayed, “Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.” Father Paul Check, the director of Courage, suggests that chastity, like justice and mercy, is indeed part of the Good News […]
In March 2005 a small group of nuns from the Cistercian Monastery of Valserena in Tuscany moved to Aleppo, Syria, to found a new monastic community there. The nuns were inspired to take up the […]
From Vatican Radio: Pope Francis has called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, in the entire Mideast region, and throughout the whole world to be held this coming Saturday, September […]
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