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Our Lady of this particular place
Fr. Raymond J.de Souza, First Things Friday, December 12, 2025 Marian feasts are among the most popular in the Church. So, it was a bit unusual when the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a “doctrinal note” last month on…
Rome and the Church in the United States
In a conversation with the great historian John Tracy Ellis, Baltimore’s Archbishop Michael J. Curley, who had had his share of tussles with the Vatican, once blurted out, “Rome will use you, abuse you, and then throw you away!” It was an…
From Nigeria to Belarus, 2025 marks a grim year for religious freedom
Paulina Guzik, Catholic Review Friday, December 12, 2025 As 2025 draws to a close, the plight of persecuted Christians around the world remains dire — and in many places, deeply forgotten. The year has exposed how fragile religious freedom is,…
Pope Leo XIV: Memento mori
Isabella H. de Carvalho, Vatican News Friday, December 12, 2025 During his recent General Audience, Pope Leo XIV spoke about existential questions of how human beings view death and invited us to ponder on the end of life and discover the power…
Two Corrections for the Week
As an intellectual pharisee, I acknowledge that I’m smarter than everyone else (after all, I’m a philosopher!). Like Aristotle’s unchanging, eternal Prime Mover, the only suitable activity for me is contemplating my own excellence in my…
100 Abortion Centers Have Closed Since Roe Was Overturned
Yesterday I wrote a story about Guttmacher headlined “Insights into the pro-abortion mind: Guttmacher’s “State Policy Trends 2025 Full-Year Analysis” and, as promised, I am analyzing the annual “Communities Need Clinics” report of the Abortion…
Here’s Why the CDC is Not Publishing Annual Abortion Data
Every year, typically the day before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued its Abortion Surveillance report, usually giving us abortion data from most of the states for two years earlier. It takes that long to…
Defense Bill Includes Hundreds of Millions for Ukraine, NATO Countries, Israel, and More
Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus Americans have repeatedly been told that the days of sending money to Ukraine are over. Well, that’s not true. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which comes with a total sticker…
Judge Orders Release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
AP ImagesKilmar Abrego Garcia Once again, Paula Xinis, the far-left Democratic federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama, has endangered the public. For once again, Xinis, of the U.S District court in Maryland, has ruled in favor…
UP, UP, AND AWAY! Trump Celebrates Stock Market’s All-Time Highs, ‘I Am Doing a Great Job’
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 ripped to new all-time highs on Thursday as Wall Street rotated out of overheated tech names and into stocks poised to win from a strengthening U.S. economy. The shift came after the Federal…