Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, released this statement today regarding Pope Benedict’s resignation: The Holy Father brought the tender heart of a pastor, […]
In the wake of this morning’s stunning news that Pope Benedict XVI will step down at the end of this month, the director of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, offered a few […]
Dear Brothers, I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly […]
Gregory Lukianoff’s Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate is well worth the read, even with the criticisms I’ll be making of it. Lukianoff is a self-declared liberal and atheist, but one […]
Readings: Is 6:1-2a, 3-8 Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8 1 Cor 15:1-11 or 15:3-8 Lk 5:1-11 God initiates. Man responds. Jesus calls. Man answers. Such is the dynamic relationship at the heart of salvation history […]
CNS has a video of a brief interview with Cardinal Francis George, in which he discusses the Obama administration’s new HHS mandate regulations: “I understand the new regulations expand not the definition [of religious institutions] […]
American political institutions give us all part of the responsibility for how we are governed. Catholics need to carry out that responsibility in accordance with their best understanding of man, society, and American political life. […]
The Education of Héctor Villa A novel by Chilton Williamson, Jr. Chronicles Press (Rockford, IL), 2012. 208 pages. Toss out your glitzy tourist-bureau guide to New Mexico, the “Land of Enchantment.” You’ll have a lot […]
In a Public Discourse essay titled, “Deciding Who Gets Religious Freedom: The Latest HHS ‘Accommodation’”, Matthew J. Franck puts forth some withering criticism of the Obama administration’s most recent revisions to the HHS mandate, saying that […]
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, released a statement today responding to the proposed changes to the HHS mandate that were announced by the Obama administration last week. While laying out what he sees […]
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