Catholic Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland has once again condemned Oregon’s “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,” calling it a moral tragedy and a profound sign of spiritual blindness in a message revisiting his pastoral teaching on…
I’ll get right to the point. Leigh Snead’s new book Infertile but Fruitful is one of the finest personal testimonies I’ve read in the past decade. It’s a “simple” story in the best sense: concise, intimate, utterly frank, and memorable. It…
In one of the great ironies of linguistic history, the English word “bedlam,” suggesting frenzy, madness, chaos, and noise, comes from what was then the common British pronunciation of the sacred name Bethlehem, in the Hospital of Saint Mary in…
Lou Holtz, whose lengthy football coaching career included an undefeated championship season at the University of Notre Dame and who spoke regularly about his Catholic faith, died on March 4 at age 89. Holtz’s death was announced by his family…
Catholic priests in Rhode Island preyed on hundreds of children for decades, getting away with sexual abuse largely due to a system where bishops prioritized minimizing scandal as the diocese maintained a secret archive that concealed evidence…
There are signs of life in the Catholic Church in Ireland: the Archdiocese of Dublin is set to receive a record number of converts into the Church this Easter. On Easter Saturday, some 129 catechumens and candidates will be received into the…
Some current public debates about Zionism, including among Catholics, are at odds with the Catholic understanding of the term, which itself has an array of meanings, as does the word “Israel” itself. Accordingly, broad catechetical education…
The small but growing Catholic Church in Norway is blessed to have two bishops now, native Norwegians, under fifty-two years old. Bishop Frederik Hansen, appointed the Bishop of Oslo in July 2025, joins the Cistercian Bishop Erik Varden,…
The University of Notre Dame is not only one of America’s best institutions of higher education, it is also seen, for the most part, as an authentically Catholic institution. That is why it was so disconcerting to read that a professor, Susan…
Abortion-rights advocate Susan Ostermann’s decision to withdraw from her appointment as the new head of the University of Notre Dame’s Asian studies institute is welcome news, so far as it goes. But it’s only the start of initiating a necessary…
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