Jesus Christ entered the world in human flesh as a babe in a manger, the ultimate display of humility, innocence, and dependence. His incarnation was made possible by the consent of his earthly mother, who, […]
Addressing the societal collapse of marriage, the US bishops have issued a pastoral letter praised by defenders of the Church’s teaching on family life. In an August interview, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York discussed […]
In the days leading up to Maine’s gay marriage vote on November 3, it seemed like a big, possibly momentous, shift in American culture was about to take place, one that could give major momentum […]
In the United States, ultrasound image technology has been instrumental in revealing the unborn child as a living and sensing person. By giving mothers and fathers an enhanced picture of who is being killed during […]
The pro-life community had reason to celebrate recently when they learned that the executive director of the Planned Parenthood Abortion Center in Bryan/College Station, Texas resigned from her job. Abby Johnson had worked at the […]
Secularists complain about the Church’s influence over government even as they seek to influence the Church’s internal governance. Witness their attacks on Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence for merely informing Congressman Patrick Kennedy that he […]
According to his critics, Pope Benedict XVI’s papacy would alienate, not attract, be rigid, not flexible. But as he presides over an imaginative papacy of growing Christian unity, their predictions fall away. Unable to compute […]
Pope Benedict XVI caught the world by surprise with the announcement that he is creating a new structure within the Catholic hierarchy to accommodate Anglicans who wish to enter the Catholic Church. At an October […]
Addressing a group of African bishops less than a year before his death, Pope John Paul II rejoiced in the vitality of the Church on that continent—a vitality that continues to this day. In 1978, […]
In the last weekend of a year of record box-office returns that broke the $10 billion mark for the first time, Hollywood closed out the decade in grand style with the biggest weekend box office […]
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