Readings: • Bar 5:1-9 • Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 • Phil 1:4-6, 8-11 • Lk 3:1-6 “There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know,” wrote St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the […]
Washington D.C., Dec 7, 2018 / 03:30 pm (CNA).- The recent sexual abuse scandals which have rocked the Church in the United States and beyond have mostly focused on the abuse of minors. At the […]
These days, if you’re an environmentalist or a progressive, you are supposed to support any and all environmental initiatives. If you’re a libertarian or conservative, you are supposed to be skeptical of environmental initiatives, especially […]
Something that happened at a bishops’ meeting nearly half a century ago raises questions about the Vatican’s action last month telling the U.S. bishops to cancel a scheduled vote on two proposals for self-policing on […]
The final document of the October youth synod has—amazingly—only one paragraph (n. 158) on Catholic schools. As inadequate as the Instrumentum Laboris was in many ways, it at least devoted several paragraphs to this apostolate […]
By peremptorily ordering the American bishops not to vote on local remedies for today’s Catholic crisis of abusive clergy and malfeasant bishops, the Vatican dramatically raised the stakes for the February 2019 meeting that Pope […]
This past Sunday, Politico reporter Alice Miranda Ollstein wrote that “no federal dollars have gone to fund abortions…” According to Ollstein, this has been the case “for decades…” In fact, the exact opposite is true. […]
William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is the most famous horror movie that is also explicitly Catholic. The film, which turned 45 this year, was written by William Peter Blatty from his own novel—he won the Oscar […]
In today’s world of super-charged ideological warfare, Left and Right agree on this: conservatives rarely feel at home in the contemporary ecological movement. Of course, many conservatives appreciate the roots of early conservation efforts. They […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: 2.5 out of 5 reels Despite a surprisingly good first entry, few saw a need for a sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph, but the internet—and its endless […]
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