[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 New York […]
… she writes this sort of stuff, from her most recent, uh, screed, “Father Doesn’t Know Best”: The bishops and the Vatican care passionately about putting women in chastity belts. Yet they let unchaste priests run […]
News broke a couple of days ago, via America magazine, that Bishop Stephen E. Blaire (Diocese of Stockton, CA), had some serious questions about how the bishops were addressing the HHS mandate: Bishops Blaire acknowledged […]
Espionage is not a joking matter (nor is it anywhere as exciting as it is portrayed on the screen) and stealing from the Pope—while not the biblical, damning sin against the Holy Spirit—is certainly a […]
Marvel’s The Avengers took in $207.4 million on its opening weekend, smashing the previous box office record for an opening weekend held by the most recent Harry Potter film. Does it live up to the […]
From a ZENIT interview with Fr. Athanasius McVay, a Ukrainian-Greek Catholic priest and historian who is chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, about the Ukrainian Church: “Being an ancient ritual,” Father McVay […]
Via the folks at the Ethics and Public Policy Center: WASHINGTON, May 24, 2012 — Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore received the American Religious Freedom Award today for his vigorous-but-gracious defense of religious liberty […]
In his 2007 letter to the faithful in China, Pope Benedict XVI established May 24 as a special day of prayer for the Chinese Church, declaring that on that day “the Catholics of the whole […]
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Free Press (New York, 2012) 337 pages. In a 2005 study conducted by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, they found that […]
It seems that Hans Küng—who was famously declared by the Vatican to have “departed from the integral truth of Catholic faith, and…can no longer be considered a Catholic theologian nor function as such in a […]
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