From the very beginning of his pontificate Pope Benedict XVI has emphasized the importance of living out our Catholic faith under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the Magisterium of the Church in union […]
On December 8, 2010, Green Bay Bishop David Ricken made Church history. On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, before an invitation-only congregation of 250 at the packed at the Shrine of Our Lady of […]
Pope Benedict XVI has to parcel out his time in such small bits that even heads of state normally get no more than a brief 20 minutes’ audience. But after the Holy Father announced the […]
Two years of bi-monthly meetings between panels of theologians representing the Society of St. Pius X and the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith have quietly concluded or come screeching to a halt, […]
Editor’s note: Diogenes has, unfortunately, ceased writing. But this essay from our archives, written in July 2007, has lost none of its original relevance. Utterly null, absolutely void, and endowed with gushing media coverage: another […]
Donna Steichen, age 81, is a prominent Catholic author and journalist. Originally from St. Cloud, Minnesota, today she lives in Ojai, California. She married her husband Roy 60 years ago, and the couple has four […]
Pope John Paul II “restored to Christianity its true face as a religion of hope,” Pope Benedict XVI said at the May 1 beatification of the Polish Pontiff. Well over one million people crowded into […]
At the UK’s top festival of the arts, the annual Hay Festival, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said that he believes William Shakespeare was likely a Catholic. Unlike others who have made similar claims, however, […]
[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published one year ago in the May 2011 issue of Catholic World Report.] New York City is the abortion capital of America. More than 40 percent of pregnancies in […]
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