This year is special for American Catholics in two ways. First, there’s the upcoming 250th birthday of the American Republic on July 4, 2026. But there’s another anniversary to celebrate. Today is the first anniversary of the election of Leo…
There is a particular kind of modern person who, upon encountering the messiness of human life, its sheer ungovernable profusion, and the suffering it entails, recoils not with pity or solidarity but with disgust. And because disgust is rarely…
Bishop Kevin Doran of the Diocese of Achonry in Ireland delivered a homily at the Newman University Church in Dublin on the occasion of the May 4 March for Life in Dublin organized by the Pro Life Campaign. In his homily, Doran addressed the…
A Catholic church in northern Mozambique was targeted in an attack by the Islamic State group that has carried out attacks against Christians and Muslims in the country since 2017. The post Historic Catholic Church in Mozambique…
Someone asked recently what it’s like to be a Catholic writer these days. That brought me up short. Because the situation of a Catholic writer at present is pretty much like that of any Catholic – we’re all bewildered by the many things now that…
The timing of the new recognitions suggests Leo is paying attention to what is happening in Spain—and signaling that neither the anti-Catholic abuses of the past nor those of the present will be ignored. The post Leo XIV Recognises…
The contemporary university is widely acknowledged to be in crisis. Loss of public confidence, relentless tuition increases, and intensifying debates over speech and academic freedom have called into question its purpose and institutional…
Fr. Gerald E. Murray and Bishop Robert Barron contend that it’s not the role of the Church’s leaders to make a final determination about whether a particular war is just or not. The post Views vary among prominent U.S. Catholic…
Senior Justice Department prosecutors in the Biden administration privately discussed targeting Catholic nuns for prosecution. It’s the latest in a long line of ways Biden attorneys went after pro-life and Christian Americans just because of…
Recently, while I was imparting that rarest of elusive concepts, a civics education, to a group of Fourth and Fifth Graders, I presented the “Preamble” to the Constitution of the United States. We listed, on that dying breed of communicative…
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