Nearly 50,000 celebrate the beatification of Midwest native Fulton J. Sheen
Features
During the growing season, visitors driving along country roads on their way to Peoria gaze out on oceans of field corn—the green stalks sporting golden tassels—and the occasional open pasture spotted with cows. Young Fulton [...]
A ‘porter’ who led others to Christ: Abp Fulton Sheen declared ‘blessed’
Features
Pope Leo XIV announced Blessed Sheen’s feast day will be on Dec. 9, the anniversary of his death. […]
Essay
Contemplating the astounding power of Padre Pio’s ministry, gifts, and trials
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968) was famous during his lifetime. He wasn’t a brilliant theologian, an innovative religious founder, a martyr, a bishop, a cardinal, or a pope. He was a Capuchin Franciscan friar who [...]
Essay
How the Mass helped to shape Western civilization
There is no shortage of recent literature across the political spectrum warning of the profound cultural crisis confronting the West and the erosion of the moral assumptions that once bound society together. Douglas Murray writes [...]
Analysis
History is not enough: Women deacons and the unity of holy orders
In four recent articles, Phyllis Zagano has renewed her long-standing argument for admitting women to the ordained diaconate. Writing in America, The Tablet, Religion News Service, and Commonweal, she presses a consistent claim: the historical [...]
Books
Cosmic Covenant is a robust, orthodox presentation of a theology of creation
When my family lived in Panama, we had both garbage and recycling collection. The running joke was that the “recycling” was a charade, and that the trucks were taking everything to the same landfill—only about [...]
Books
Hollow Culture, Brittle Relationships, and Spiritual Poverty
Noelle Mering’s new book, titled No Contact: How a Seductive Ideology Broke Families and Friendships and How We Can Repair Them, looks at the distressing rise of family estrangement. It’s a phenomenon the author compares [...]
Essay
The Evangelization Power of Rome
In centuries past, the great missionaries of the Church—many now canonized saints—traveled to the far ends of the earth to bring Christ to those the Church once called pagans. The dangers were not exaggerated. Months [...]
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Editor’s note: This essay by the late Fr. James V. Schall was published originally in slightly different form at Ignatius Insight on September 8, 2006, to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, [...] -
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“The Apostle Paul, an outstanding and almost inimitable yet stimulating figure, stands before us as an example of total dedication to the Lord and to his Church, as well as of great openness to humanity [...] -
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This sounds like a badly needed program in every diocese.
