A coalition of Catholic nuns and pro-life advocates has launched a nationwide campaign to mail Christmas cards to every abortion facility in the United States, urging workers to leave the abortion industry. Organizers say one abortion center…
In the 12th and 13th centuries, monks developed some of the first fully mechanical clocks. Their purpose was simple. The monks would come to chapel seven times a day to chant the praises of God and intercede for the world. Clocks enabled them to…
I realize the title of this article may sound like an oxymoron. However, the original Protestant Reformers never viewed themselves as abandoning the Catholic Church. The term “Catholic,” which simply means universal, was not synonymous with…
Good news! Owing to a combination of demographic realities and public scandal, universities are progressing into a phase-out, around the United States and the world. The cause of their extinction will be that they are no longer attractive to…
Thomas Guarino, First Things Thursday, November 27, 2025 The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith recently released a document on the Blessed Mother, Mater Populi Fidelis (Mother of the Faithful People), is subtitled “Doctrinal Note on Some…
Stephen P. White There is something fitting about the date of Thanksgiving. I don’t mean that there’s anything particularly special about the fourth Thursday of November except that it invariably falls in the last week of Ordinary Time. And so…
Roger Kimball, First Things Tuesday, November 25, 2025 Bill Buckley (1925-2008), the conservative icon, was born 100 years ago yesterday. For him, the most depressing innovation in the Church was one that will be familiar to anyone who has been…
There are many reasons people come into the Catholic Church, but a common one is their experience of its beauty: the beauty of the art, the architecture, the music, and the liturgy. Too often, those whose goal is “evangelizing” ignore the beauty…
Madalaine Elhabbal, Catholic News Agency Monday, November 24, 2025 The University of Notre Dame has reinstated “Catholic Mission” among its staff values after it opted to drop the language in an effort to reprogram the school’s Catholic identity…
Shoah is the Hebrew word for catastrophic ruin and unmitigated disaster. Shoah is also a biblical term used to refer to the Holocaust, and Auschwitz can be understood as a condensed symbol of the many catastrophes that led up to the death camps,…
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