On day two of the USCCB Fall Assembly this week, Archbishop Borys Gudziak spoke about the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’ in 2025 and proposed a striking idea for marking the occasion in the US: restoring the Friday […]
The Church, in various periods of her history, has had to deal with the scourge of moral rigorism—a distorted emphasis on upright behavior. The prototypical rigorist movement, certainly in the modern era, was Jansenism, a […]
In his First Letter to Timothy, St. Paul, when laying out the qualifications of a bishop, includes this telling remark: “He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit […]
In advance of the Jubilee Year of 2025, Pope Francis declared 2024 a Year of Prayer—a time “dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in personal life, in the life of the […]
A Presbyterian church down the road from where I live—one hooked, as many churches are, to posting one-liners on its marquee—recently put up a quotation that irked me the more I had to drive by […]
Tim Sullivan’s recent piece for the Associated Press on the state of the Church in America has made the rounds in Catholic circles, and it feels like a generally accurate snapshot of where things are and […]
The Hallow app has quickly become one of the most successful prayer apps in the country—and not just for Catholics. It was the first faith-based app to crack the overall top 10; it boasts over […]
This week, a viral video captured NYC-based pastor Brandan Robertson—known as “the TikTok pastor,” at least according to his website—making a peculiar argument: that St. Paul and Jesus “are preaching two different Gospels.” Robertson’s comments […]
In a recent BBC interview, Anthony Fauci reflects on his own “complicated” relationship with the Catholic Church. Fauci and the reporter are strolling the corridors of his new place of work, the Jesuit-run Georgetown University—where […]
Everywhere one looks these days, one sees Elon Musk blazing a trail—an audacity not without its sparks and, yes, the occasional firestorm. Most recently, Musk had some choice words for advertisers leaving X in protest […]
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