Why does it seem that orderly, prosperous, and well-run societies are usually less religious, but the less religious a society becomes the more disorderly it gets? The situation is complex, it’s hard to do comparisons, […]
Author, philosopher, and historian George Weigel has been in Ukraine, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Ukrainian Catholic University, delivered an address on Bl. John Paul II at an International Symposium at UCU […]
From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 9 July 2013 (VIS) – On the afternoon of Saturday 6 July in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall the Pope met with seminarians, novices and young people discerning their […]
First Things has posted an address, “Wisdom, Christian Witness, and the Year of Faith”, given yesterday by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput at the National Shrine, Washington, D.C., as part of the National Shrine’s Year of […]
Some films are unremittingly cheerful, and some are unremittingly dark. I prefer films that combine grit/darkness with virtue, even fragile virtue…not easy to pull off without the viewer having the sense of a manipulative deus […]
Ann Carey has written extensively about Catholic women religious for many years, publishing articles on the subject in the National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Crisis, and Catholic World Report. She has received Catholic Press Association awards […]
Terrapin: A Mystery (also in electronic book format) By T.M. Doran Ignatius Press, 2012 392 pp., $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-58617-721-8 Reviewed by Kenneth Colston From the July/August 2013 issue of St. Austin Review. Is there such […]
“The future is made wherever people find their way to one another in life-shaping convictions. And a good future grows wherever these convictions come from the truth and lead to it.” — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, […]
“There is no human experience, no journey of man to God, which cannot be taken up, illuminated and purified by this light. The more Christians immerse themselves in the circle of Christ’s light, the more […]
From Vatican Information Service (read the full text of encyclical here): Vatican City, 5 July 2013 (VIS) – Published below is a broad summary of Pope Francis’ first encyclical, “Lumen Fidei”, published today, 5 July […]
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