When pizza magnate Tom Monaghan founded Legatus in 1987, its members had as their mission to “study, live and spread the Catholic faith” in their families, businesses, and communities. Today, almost 40 years later, that […]
Students at the University of Notre Dame gathered on Feb. 27 for a candlelit prayer service to offer thanksgiving for the university’s Catholic identity. The event was originally planned as a protest in response to […]
Readings: • Gen 12:1-4a • Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 • 2 Tim 1:8b-10 • Mt 17:1-9 “Life is short; death is certain,” wrote St. John Henry Newman, “and the world to come is everlasting.” […]
February 27th is the feast day of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Passionist saint was born in Assisi, Italy, on March 1, 1838, and baptized Francesco Possenti on the same day, not […]
As the saying goes: When a person tells you who they are, believe them. So I argued after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, last year. Standing on the loggia of […]
Multiple U.S. bishops had come out against the appointment of Professor Susan Ostermann to lead the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, which was announced in January.A pro-abortion professor at the University of Notre […]
This last year, the world watched as the cardinals gathered in Rome for the election of a new pope, the 267th bishop of Rome. New York recently received a new archbishop, and Denver is preparing […]
A convert to Catholicism, Thigpen wrote prolifically on saints, the Blessed Mother, and the possibility of intelligent alien life, among other topics. Paul Thigpen, the noted theologian and convert to the Catholic faith known for […]
Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican Secretary of State from 1979 to 1990—and before that, the architect and chief diplomatic agent of the Ostpolitik of Pope Paul VI—initially played hard-to-get when I tried to interview him for […]
How Have the Popes Treated the SSPX? (National Catholic Register): “As the Society of St. Pius X is again on the brink of schism, perhaps a more traditional approach from the Holy See would serve […]
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