Kenya’s National Assembly voted on Thursday afternoon, to approve the appointment of Lady Justice Philomena Mwilu as the country’s next Deputy Chief Justice. This means Mrs. Mwilu automatically joins the seven member Supreme Court bench. […]
As Iraqi forces continue their offensive against the ISIS-held city of Mosul, reports and images of the re-capturing of a string of villages and towns outside the city have hit the international media. Video aired […]
When the pot is boiling, turn down the heat. You can’t be sure, but that could well have been part of the reasoning behind Pope’s Francis’s decision to choose as topic of the next world […]
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” So wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran, German pastor, […]
Courage, a Catholic apostolate for men and women experiencing same-sex attractions (SSA), was founded by Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York in 1980. Inspired by the work of American Father John F. Harvey, Courage has […]
Introduction This coming year will mark the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of his 95 Theses onto the door of the collegiate church of Wittenberg, traditionally regarded as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. […]
Alfred Emmanuel Smith (1873-1944) served as Governor of New York for four terms and earned the gratitude of all civilized people by opposing Prohibition when that disastrous experiment in social engineering was, weirdly, at the […]
Years ago I wrote an article titled “Dogma is Not a Dirty Word”. In it, I noted how those who criticize the Church for being “dogmatic” fail to understand that everyone is dogmatic in a […]
Four years ago, the conflict between the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and the Catholic Church reached a high point, when then-Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone decreed that the university could no […]
Dr. Samuel Gregg is director of research at the Acton Institute, the author of several books and numerous articles, and a frequent contributor to Catholic World Report. He has written and spoken extensively on questions […]
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