For too long, Catholics in the United States—myself included—have treated the Church as an extension of our political identities, a sociological distortion that has carried the language, loyalties, and resentments of the culture wars straight […]
The Supreme Court of Finland has acquitted Päivi Räsänen over her 2019 Bible verse tweet and found her guilty of hate speech over a pamphlet she wrote more than 20 years ago. […]
Recent controversies have swirled around whether Christians holding true to their deeply held religious beliefs can serve as foster and/or adoptive parents for children because of state-mandated gender ideology mandates. However, the tide may be […]
The announcement of the beatification Mass in Missouri fell on the the solemnity of the Annunciation, as Sheen “spent his life continuing the work of the Archangel Gabriel.” […]
On this solemnity, which celebrates the high-water mark in the history of salvation, permit me to explore with you three Latin expressions. 1. Verbum caro factum est [The Word became flesh]. We find this line, of […]
My Lenten reading has included an interesting, if somewhat odd, book about the greatest of the Latin Fathers of the Church: Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare, a philologist currently teaching at Bryn Mawr. The interesting part […]
Bishop Barron pains the Catholic Left. He heartens the rest of us. (Catholic Culture): “Steven Greydanus, a deacon of the Archdiocese of Newark and former film critic for the National Catholic Register, has penned a “longread” Substack […]
At a symposium titled “Synodality and Praedicate Gospel” at the University of Bonn, the cardinal said he used to be more conservative on this issue but changed his mind. […]
The main point of just war doctrine is to guide public authorities in determining whether a military action they are considering is morally defensible. In a democratic society, it also assists citizens in carrying out […]
Bishop Johan Bonny expressed his plan to ordain married men into the priesthood by 2028 in a move that has not received approval from the Vatican and would violate the current Code of Canon Law. […]
© Catholic World Report