Seventy-five years ago, on January 27, 1945, the infantrymen of the Red Army’s 322nd Rifle Division were bludgeoning their way into the Third Reich when they discovered the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camps. The German inventors of […]

I write these words on the airplane taking me home from my first visit as a bishop ad limina apostolorum (to the threshold of the apostles). This is the pilgrimage, required by canon law of […]

Vatican City, Feb 3, 2020 / 12:53 pm (CNA).- A leaked draft of an anticipated apostolic exhortation on the Amazon started a flurry of speculation last week that Pope Francis plans to allow the ordination […]

In a November 2018 New York Times op-ed, Andrea Long Chu acutely details an eye-opening account of what we could call “a new type of liberty.” Chu is genetically male, and has sought to medically […]

Rome is the city in which I’ve lived for twenty-three years: almost the whole of my adult life. I love this city, and its people. Some of what I’ve seen this week, though, makes me […]

Vatican City, Jan 31, 2020 / 02:15 pm (CNA).- The year 2020 is one month old and already stacked high with expectation for Pope Francis. The long-awaited McCarrick report is due “early” this year; so […]

At the end of their third plenary assembly in May 2019, the Catholic Bishops of West Africa decried the horrors of terrorist attacks and violence in their region. “Authentic religion respects the sanctity of life […]

I’ve had a hunch for quite some time that more people than you might suppose have had mystical experiences or, if not quite that, at least something resembling them, and lately a quick search of […]

Los Angeles, Calif., Jan 29, 2020 / 03:01 pm (CNA).- Countering a common charge of contemporary theologians, Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., said Tuesday that St. Thomas Aquinas’ account of the Passion is profoundly Trinitarian. “St. […]