Here is Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for the Twenty-Eighth World Youth Day, courtesy of Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 16 November 2012 (VIS) – “Go and make disciples of all nations!” is the title of […]
In an ideal Catholic world, if a Catholic theologian promoted a woman’s right to choose abortion and encouraged access to same-sex marriage, while also comparing the sacrifice of the Mass to an act of homosexual […]
Controversy over Ireland’s abortion laws has exploded world-wide after a 31-year-old woman died on October 28 of blood poisoning, having miscarried her 17-week-old fetus. Savita Halappanavar’s husband says that Irish doctors refused to terminate her […]
Democracy means “rule by the people,” but today that seems an increasingly distant ideal. We live in a diverse country of 310 million people with a government responsible for a huge range of domestic and […]
George Weigel’s latest column “The Crisis of a Second Obama Administration” has been making the rounds in the Catholic blogosphere today; receiving particular attention is Weigel’s contention that “it seems important to accelerate a serious […]
In a NRO piece titled, “Lesbian Mothers’ Children”, Mark Regnerus questions the validity and viability of producing new studies based on the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: This month yielded yet another published study — […]
I want to thank Alex Gibney for taking the time to reply to my analysis of his new documentary film, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. Any good and honest writer appreciates […]
A revolution in the Church’s thinking and practice regarding the Catholic laity has been underway for the past century or more. This striking development in theology and pastoral policy received by far its biggest boost […]
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Last week was a momentous one for the world. No, not because of the U.S. elections, but because news broke that the Pope is a big James Bond fan. Or something like that. It depends, […]
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