The modern debate over health care is certainly a debate worth having. But sometimes it’s helpful to step back from modern proposals about the care of the sick—typically involving legislation, bureaucracy, and costs—to think about […]
Catholic bishops in Central Africa have called on regional leaders to take swift action in the implementation of the peace resolutions to end the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Death […]
The following homily was preached at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Lent is upon us. And the first step in having a successful, productive Lent is […]
The final edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1940) is a drab little volume smaller than the average paperback. Bound in soft gray cardboard, its 510 flimsy pages—plus front matter and appendices—record the Church’s last […]
An intriguing paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I have often pondered, is #675: The Church’s ultimate trial. Before Christ’s second coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake […]
Vice President JD Vance’s recent comment that we should love and assist those close to us before those who are more distant provoked an outburst of argument that eventually involved even the Pope. The comment […]
Dear Vice-President Vance: Your statement—“I realize that there is a part of me—the best part of me—that takes its cue from Catholicism”—is music to my ears. In fact, it cued me to introduce you to […]
In Healing Wounds: The 2025 Lent Book, Bishop Erik Varden, OCist, of Norway, guides readers more deeply into Christ’s wounds while also helping us to see our own more clearly and not fear bringing them to […]
For the past two years, Emma Trujillo, a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, has prayed a Rosary with residents at Holton Manor Nursing Home, also in Elkhorn. She and three other […]
Ilyas Khan is the founder of Quantinuum, the world’s largest and leading quantum computing company. Quantinuum is an Anglo-USA quantum computing company with joint headquarters in Colorado and Cambridge(Great Britain). Ilyas was the Chairman of […]
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