The Vatican’s recent announcement that American journalist Greg Burke will be taking on the newly-created job of communications advisor to the Holy See’s Secretariat of State has received widespread coverage in the religious and mainstream […]
The Vatican Information Service reports: Vatican City, 26 June 2012 (VIS) – Given below is the text of an English-language note issued today by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Fatih concerning the appointment […]
Although Croatia is historically Catholic, it took until 2006 for this country with a long, dazzlingly beautiful Adriatic coastline across from Italy to found its first Catholic university. Why did it take so long, excepting […]
When Hitler Took Austria: A Memoir of Heroic Faith by the Chancellor’s Son (Ignatius Press, 2012; also available in Electronic Book Format), by Kurt and Janet von Schuschnigg, is the incredible story of Austrian Chancellor […]
St. Hildegard of Bingen (1089–1179) will soon be the Catholic Church’s 35th Doctor. The formal proclamation will make her the fourth woman to be declared a Doctor of the Church, joining the ranks of Saints […]
From the New York Times: Msgr. William J. Lynn was found guilty Friday of one count of endangering children, becoming the first senior official of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States to be […]
On August 1, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) issued the guidelines and regulations for women’s “protective services,” and finalized them on February 10, […]
Today marks the beginning of the “Fortnight for Freedom,” the 14 days before Independence Day designated by the US bishops as a “special period of prayer, study, catechesis, and public action [that] will emphasize both […]
“I think more should be written about conversion within the Church. It is a more difficult subject than conversion without.” — Flannery O’Connor By the time I was received into the Catholic Church 15 years […]
When Dana Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) was appointed Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California, the position he now holds, David St. John of USC described his new colleague […]
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