I watch very little television news, but last night I happened to catch FOX’s Megyn Kelly interview Patricia Ireland, former president of NOW (National Organization for Free Contraceptives); the video is below. Kelly was clearly […]
Pope Francis recently recognized Alice von Hildebrand as a Dame Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory in recognition of her lifetime of work on behalf of the Church. She is originally from […]
Italian journalist and Vatican veteran Sandro Magister reports: After already having canonized six new saints without waiting for a new miracle to be certified for each of them after their beatification, Pope Francis could soon […]
Perhaps more often than we notice, our bishops actually model for us the gentle strength and love of Our Lord in delivering the Gospel of Christ to the world in a manner most befitting to […]
The Diocese of Baton Rouge is protesting a decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court that the diocese contends requires one of its priests to violate the seal of confession. In May, the state Supreme Court […]
In Cardinal Walter Kasper’s recent address to the extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals (February 20-21, 2014), published in English with additional material as The Gospel of the Family (New York: Paulist, 2014), he makes mention of […]
• I’m making a concerted effort to keep this edition of “Carl’s Cuts” quite short. Which is why I’ve titled it— • Nevermind, it’ll take too long to explain. • What books are you not […]
Comparing clerical sex abuse to “a sacrilegious cult” whose perpetrators sacrifice children “to the idol of their own concupiscence,” Pope Francis spoke today to victims of sexual abuse, in his first such meeting since becoming […]
Ankawa (kath.net/ACN). The emigration of Christians from Iraq will greatly accelerate. The Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, expressed this opinion in an interview with the international Catholic relief organization […]
A year ago today, I wrote a short piece titled, “No Faith, No Freedom. Know Faith, Know Freedom” (July 3, 2013), that remarked, in part, about the first encyclical of Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei. I […]
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