Eight Eastern Christian leaders met yesterday with President Barack Obama, at the close of a three-day conference in Washington, DC aimed at strengthening ties between Christian communities in the Middle East and at raising awareness […]
Just before 8 am, on July 30, 2014, I made my way to a church in Kensington, London. As I drew nearer I saw smoke rising, and, nearer still, found a young man puffing on […]
St. Pope John Paul II said that a priest should have the heart of Christ the Good Shepherd. Far too many saccharine paintings of effeminate Jesuses in the midst of delicate lambs are conducive to […]
After serving 25 years in state and federal prisons, Utah polygamist Addam Swapp was released from parole supervision last week. Incarcerated since 1988—at a time when marriage was defined as a union between one man […]
Last weekend three Italian religious sisters serving in Burundi were brutally murdered in their convent. Yesterday, a man was arrested and confessed to the crime, according to police: [The killer] was found with the cellphone […]
At age twenty-three, I was asked to join the parish council at my church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan where I’d been an active parishioner for several years. Upon accepting the invitation, I […]
The sign of peace “breaks up the Mass and, when conveyed with zealotry, transforms it into something it’s really not supposed to be: part hippie love fest, part election campaign (there’s always one fellow who […]
In early April 2014, German author Gabriele Kuby visited the Czech Republic to give a number of public presentations promoting her new book, The Global Sexual Revolution: The Destruction of Freedom in the Name of […]
From yet another exceptional column by Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, in the Sept.7-20 edition of Catholic New World: There was always a quasi-religious element in the public creed of the country. It lived off the […]
I’m not a big fan of clever tee-shirts imprinted with smart-alecky sayings, but not long ago I saw one that caught my fancy. It read: “I was an okay parent, but I’m a helluva grandparent.” […]
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