12 quotes from “Dilexi te”

Pope Leo XIV‘s first apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi Te” (“I have loved you”), promulgated yesterday – the feast day of St. John Henry Newman – explores love and charity for the poor. Among the quotes that give a sense of what the document…

A world without God or state?

I was brought up a Catholic. I remember praying each night with my grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, when I would go to stay with him and my grandmother in Bournemouth, and sensing the certainty of his faith. I still have two circular prayer cards,…

When German Catholics Fought Back

There was a time when German Catholics fought for the faith. One hundred and fifty years ago, half the bishops of Prussia were imprisoned, as were hundreds of parish priests, leaving more than a thousand parishes orphaned. All of them had…