Among the fault lines revealed by the ecclesiastical earthquakes erupting after Pope Francis’ Amoris laetitia, we can see, I suggest, how some high-ranking ecclesiastics seem inadequately to understand the differences between “sexual relations” and “conjugal relations”. Most any […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: AII Reel Rating: (4 out of 5 reels) The Lego Batman Movie is impossible to dislike. It is also the best Batman movie since The Dark Knight and the best […]
We seem to be rather short of good news for Catholics at present. Here is something that is at least faintly cheering. Dame Louise Casey is a government-appointed official with the rather worrying title of […]
So far this year alone, my husband and I have conducted four marriage enrichment conferences. We share the story of our own journey back to each other and to the Church, and do our best […]
Evelyn Waugh’s character Charles Ryder described his friend Sebastian’s protracted acts of self-destruction as “a blow, expected, repeated, falling upon a bruise, with no smart or shock of surprise, only a dull and sickening pain […]
Christians have always been “Resident Aliens,” the title of the first chapter of Archbishop Charles Chaput’s new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World. But “we [Americans] live in […]
A recent New Yorker cartoon has a drawing of the office of an unidentified network provider which might as well have been Facebook bearing the caption: “We’re close to being reliant solely on renewable sources of outrage.” […]
Where are they? Where are the women who are so utterly angry and irate; the women who are simply besides themselves about the way their sex is allegedly abused and demeaned by those in positions […]
The liturgical historian Fr. Robert Taft, S.J., is fond of saying that both the Latin and Byzantine liturgical traditions are “mongrels.” There is no such thing as a “pure” rite or liturgical tradition untouched by […]
Joseph Pearce is the prolific author of numerous literary works including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare, and Shakespeare on Love, and the editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series. His other books include literary […]
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