Political change is afoot in Canada. Well, maybe not political change, but change of personnel. On January 6, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, leader of the federal Liberal Party for 12 years and Prime Minister for […]

There’s a new slogan percolating in the Vatican: “teologia rapida.” Jesuit priest and author Antonio Spadaro, who is undersecretary for the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education and the former editor-in-chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, […]

Being a multi-tasker by nature (and habit), I often turn on the telly for some mindless entertainment while I do some writing or editing. For fourteen years, however, on Friday nights at ten, I have […]

Readings: Mal 3:1-4 Psa 24:7, 8, 9, 10 Heb 2:14-18 Lk 2:22-40 The Gospel of Luke contains many details and stories about the infancy of Jesus not found elsewhere. Today’s Gospel reading is one such […]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “‘Heal the sick!’ The Church has received this charge from the Lord and strives to carry it out by taking care of the sick as well as by accompanying them […]

Getting people to read these days is tough. Blame it on our age of social media, electronic games, infinite distractibility: if a text is more than a hundred words in length—beyond say what fills a […]

MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating, Not rated at the time of this review Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels There’s a special joy in watching the beginnings of a filmmaker’s career. Festival shorts, student […]

At their most recent meeting in November, the United States bishops approved proceeding with the beatification cause of an obscure nun from America’s heartland. It is doubtful that even the people in the Diocese of […]

On January 17, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in a potential blockbuster dispute from Maryland now named Mahmoud v. Taylor. Mahmoud may be the Court’s most significant case on parental rights to direct the upbringing of their children since […]