The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, together with the chairman of the conference’s Committee for Religious Liberty, released a statement earlier today in response to the US Supreme Court’s ruling in […]
“All the best, then, to the Italian Sports Center on its 70th anniversary! And best wishes to all of you! I heard before that you made me your captain: thank you.” — Pope Francis, “To Members […]
In a June 12th post, Michael J. Miller passed along the bad news that Christians were being driven out completely of the city of Mosul, which is located in northern Iraq and had an estimated […]
Today, on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Francis conferred the pallium on 24 archbishops from around the world during Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. The pallium is a white garment made of […]
When Christians make movies about saints, they sometimes succeed as hagiography, always make their intended audiences feel good, and almost always fail as art. Christians often can’t resist the temptation to tell the story with […]
Readings: • Acts 3:1-10 • Psa 19:2-3, 4-5 • Gal 1:11-20 • Jn 21:15-19 One denied Christ after having been chosen by him. The other was chosen by Christ after he had spent much time […]
Bruce Allen Murphy’s new biography of the most important jurist of our time, Scalia: A Court of One, has already passed through a characteristically rigorous critique at the “Bench Memos” blog at National Review Online […]
Yesterday the Archdiocese of Santa Fe announced that the Vatican has agreed to open a cause for the sainthood of a religious sister renowned for her work among the poor and the sick during an […]
Vatican City, 26 June 2014 (VIS) – A press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office this morning to present the Instrumentum Laboris of the 3rd Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (5-19 […]
Starting in 2003, the United States has made two fundamental mistakes in Iraq, both with strong moral implications. At the risk of oversimplification, they can be summed up like this: the first mistake was going […]
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