The Guild of Our Lady of Ransom: the name has a splendid ring to it. As well it might, as an organisation founded in 19th-century England in the years following Fr (later Cardinal, now Saint […]

Karl Rahner, SJ (1904-1984), one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, is a favorite whipping boy for many traditionally minded Catholics. Yet Rahner was something of a split personality. Part of […]

Disappearance of Confession – “A new book charts the rise and fall—and perhaps disappearance—of Catholic confession.” How Many Hail Marys for a Lost Sacrament? (ARC) Liberal Protestantism, R.I.P. – “Mainline Protestantism lost interest in the […]

The current administration is making good on one of President Trump’s campaign pledges to carry out mass deportations of foreign nationals residing in the U.S. without proper authorization. The Washington Post has reported that arrests increased […]

Imagine being told that your life has limited value because you are missing an arm or a leg. I was recently reminded of this when my mom told me a story about the daughter of […]

On the Blessed Virgin Mary I recollect one saying among others of my confessor, a Jesuit Father, one of the holiest, most prudent men I ever knew. He said that we could not love the […]

What is the purpose of education? Is it, as Justice Sonya Sotomayor recently wrote in dissent of Mahmoud v. Taylor, “that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but […]