Pope Francis was not in any way condoning the attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in his comments Thursday about the limits of freedom of expression, a Vatican spokesman has clarified. Father Thomas […]
The daughter of two atheist academics who came out as gay in middle school, Eve Tushnet was in many respects an unlikely convert to Catholicism. But convert she did, and she tells her story in […]
A few years ago, shortly before Christmas, a French television news program asked people on a street in Paris if they knew what is celebrated on December 25th. A surprising number, including many North Africans—of […]
What happened in France just days ago will leave scars and bruises long after the actual wounds have healed. The slaughter of the innocents was particularly poignant for me as our eldest daughter lives in […]
Among the highlights of 2014 for me was a visit to the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko. I was first there in 1986, when Poland was still under Communism, and just months after his savage […]
On a bitterly cold Sunday morning in mid-December I approached the basilica church attached to the Dominican Priory in Krakow’s Old Quarter. The church and priory are named after the Most Holy Trinity, and upon […]
Reverend Walter Hoye made headlines in 2009 when he was arrested for passing out pro-life information at an abortion facility in Oakland, California. Rev. Hoye’s peaceful action earned him a 30-day sentence in Alameda County’s […]
The forthcoming papal encyclical on ecology has provoked plenty of discussion (and in some case, eye rolling) around the blogosphere. As Catholics, however, we shouldn’t have any objection to the Holy Father emphasizing care of […]
Daniel Dennett, one of the “four horsemen” of contemporary atheism, proposed in 2003 that those who espouse a naturalist, atheist worldview should call themselves “the brights,” thereby distinguishing themselves rather clearly from the dim benighted […]
In his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, Blessed Pope Paul VI warned of the dire consequences that would befall societies if they used artificial means to separate sex from procreation. Nearly two generations later, society has […]
© Catholic World Report