FRONT ROYAL, Va. — Christendom College hosted prominent theologians and historians for a one day conference titled “Encountering Christ: Apologetics and the New Evangelization” on its Front Royal, Va., campus on July 11. The one-day […]
“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again” (Jn 2:19). I. One of the accusations made against Christ was that he threatened to destroy the Temple of Jerusalem. When King […]
“If we examine Lee first upon the art at which he surpassed, we find a curiously dispassionate understanding not just of technique, but of the place of war in the life of civilized man. Napoleon […]
We knew same-sex marriage was coming, and Obergefell v. Hodges made it a legal reality. What’s unreal is the sweeping majority opinion, a farcical tour-de-force rooted in the risible rhetoric of tolerance and diversity. As […]
The Catholic Bishops in Nigeria have released a statement, “Our Stand On Marriage, family and human society,” in which they denounce the “recent rise in Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender activism” and encourage “leaders, legislators and […]
Both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI (when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) have encouraged Catholics to read Lord of the World, Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson’s 1907 novel that eerily predicted the state of the […]
There are emerging conflicts in what I call the second round of health care conscientious objection. The first round, following Roe v. Wade, continues to engage religious health care providers in conscientious objection to abortion, […]
Does Henry Higgins hold the key to settling the same-sex marriage debate? Not quite. But in the wake of the Supreme Court decision declaring a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, it’s well worth considering what […]
In early June, the distinguished Catholic editor Dagoberto Valdés Hernández, a leader of the Cuban democratic opposition, gave a lecture at Georgetown and reprised its main points later that day at the National Endowment for […]
At the beginning of Pope Francis’ three-day trip to Bolivia—the second stop on his three-country tour of Latin America—the Pontiff was given an odd gift by Evo Morales, the country’s president: a crucifix in the […]
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