That is the subject of this recent National Catholic Register feature by Joan Frawley Desmond, who writes: As the founder of Ignatius Press, a leading publisher of Catholic theological works, Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio has […]
Review of Why Priests? A Failed Tradition By Garry Wills New York: Viking Press, 2013. 302 pages. It was no surprise to see Garry Wills’ op-ed on the upcoming papal conclave published in The New […]
A little more than 90 years ago, G.K. Chesterton, one of the 20th century’s most famous converts, entered the Catholic Church. Explaining “why I am a Catholic,” he wrote: “there are ten thousand reasons all […]
In his February 21, 2013 article in The Wall Street Journal, “The Assassin at the Door”, Lars Hedegaard describes how he barely escaped assassination for his public criticism of radical Islam, and attempts to impose Sharia Law […]
For the last several weeks I’ve been teaching an online course about the role of the Catholic laity. We’d just gotten to the subject of personal vocation when the startling news came through: Benedict XVI […]
When a coalition of United States scientists issued the most recent draft of its National Climate Assessment, it captured the attention of environmental regulators like me. Two weeks later, the United States Environmental Protection Agency […]
It is good to often remind myself that as frustrating as things can be here in the United States when it comes to religious liberty and related matters, there are Christians in other parts of […]
George Weigel, author of numerous books, including the recently published Evangelical Catholicism, talks with Catholic News Service about the challenges the next pope will face in reforming the Roman Curia.
The most recent column of Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia, is titled,“Justice, Prudence and Immigration Reform” (Feb. 19, 2013). Here is some of that column (with emphasis added): The Catholic commitment to the […]
Don’t expect to hear much in the U.S. media about the stunning McAlleese Report, especially since the mythology of vicious, vile, and abusive Irish nuns running the the Magdalene Laundries has been so firmly established by Hollywood […]
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