We’ve grown to think of our American experience of Halloween—with its focus on horror themes, costumes, candy, and decorations—as normative. In fact, it’s a product of the 20th-century media-saturated, consumer-oriented appropriation of Catholic feasts for […]

Polish domestic politics are currently roiled by the resurgence of an old issue: how to create domestic partnerships, while not calling them that. At an October 17 press conference in Warsaw, representatives of multiple parties […]

Sixty years ago, on October 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council adopted, and Pope Paul VI promulgated, the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, known by the first words in the […]

Network of Terror – “The Near East, the cradle of Christianity, is now filled with governments and non-state actors overtly hostile to Christians.” Don’t Fall for the Islamic Republic’s Attempt at “Christian-Washing” (Providence) Smooth Flying, […]

Saint Jude, whose feast the Church celebrates on October 28, is known the world over for his patronage—that of hopeless causes—and for the Children’s Research Hospital named in his honor. But what some might not […]

The September 30th ruling, St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton v. Roy, is a major setback for religious freedom. In the most far-reaching part of its order, the Tenth Circuit Court unanimously ruled that two Catholic […]

Vatican City, Oct 26, 2025 / 08:10 am Pope Leo XIV said at a Mass on Sunday that no one in the Church “should impose his or her own ideas” and asked that tensions between […]