The acts of terrorism which took place in Paris Friday night are the latest part in what Pope Francis has called a “piecemeal World War III,” describing the attacks as “inhuman.” “There is no justification […]
Readings for Sunday, November 15, 2015: • Dn 12:1-3 • Ps 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11 • Heb 10:11-14, 18 • Mk 13:24-32 At the start of this month, On the Solemnity of All Saints, the […]
“Although the universal Church of God is constituted of distinct orders of members, still, in spite of the many parts of its holy body, the Church subsists in an integral whole….” — Pope Saint Leo […]
Amid the accolades—including a Pulitzer Prize—awarded to the writers at the Boston Globe for their investigative reporting on the Catholic clergy abuse scandal in 2002, reviews of Spotlight, the recently released film about the Globe’s […]
The Catholic Church is hemorrhaging young people. Half of young Americans (50 percent exactly) who were raised Catholic no longer identify as Catholic today. Four out of five Catholics who left the Church left before […]
The inability of parties to America’s culture war to communicate meaningfully with one another on issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, and assisted suicide is a disturbing fact of national life today. One observer remarks that […]
On November 14, Pope Francis will meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the Vatican. It will be the first time a pope has met with a head of the Islamic Republic since Pope St. […]
Editor’s note: The following interview was originally published on the Ignatius Press Novels website, which features reviews, interviews, and other information about Catholic fiction and novelists. Earlier this year, it was announced that the first annual […]
Several years ago, Father Raymond de Souza, one of my fellow faculty members at an annual Kraków-based summer seminar on Catholic social doctrine, made a trenchant observation about the city John Paul II used to […]
This year the Brotherhood of Hope, a community of religious brothers who evangelize college students at secular schools, is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its founding and the 50th anniversary of the ordination of its […]
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