On September 2, 1939, the House of Commons debated the British government’s response to the German invasion of Poland the previous day. The ruling Conservative Party was badly divided between those demanding that Britain fulfill […]
A new Pew Research Center survey suggests that those who identify as Christian have dramatically declined in the past decade, while those with no religious affiliation have dramatically increased. Is this a harbinger of the […]
In one of the early episodes of the BBC mini-series Wolf Hall, based on Hilary Mantel’s award-winning novel of the same name, there is a conversation between King Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell about the […]
CRUX posted a report yesterday about the “Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty” held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and attended by President Barack Obama. Here are the opening paragraphs of the story: When […]
The just released study “America’s Changing Religious Landscape” (May 12, 2015) from Pew Research Center indicates that trends shaping and marking the religious landscape for the past four decades have not changed. But this did […]
In our most recent co-authored Catholic World Report article, “Beauty and Tradition in the ‘Church of the Poor’,” we discussed the coexistence of liturgical and artistic splendor with frugality and simplicity of life, especially among […]
Fr. Peter Mitchell’s book The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education, recently published by Ignatius Press, is a detailed studied of revolutionary events that took place in the late Sixties […]
Readings: • Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 • Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 • 1 Jn 4:7-10 • Jn 15:9-17 “Did I read the same encyclical as The New York Times?” That was the title of a […]
The face of the Catholic Church is often a masculine one, whether it be the pope, bishops, or local priests, and in recent decades this has been viewed by many as a bad thing. The […]
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