In his first intervention today (full text below) at the Youth Synod, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. criticized the Instrumentum Laboris – the working document for the synod — for including the descriptive “LGBTQ youth” […]
The Synod on youth holds particular interest for me since I have spent a great portion of my priestly ministry teaching high school and college students, as well as seminarians. Pope Francis’ claim that youth […]
James V. Johnston’s tenure as the seventh bishop of the diocese of Kansas City–St. Joseph, Missouri, may have begun September 15 of 2015, the day Pope Francis announced his appointment. But his actual episcopacy probably […]
I never took a class from historian Frank Orlando, but the motto he placed in the faculty section of my college yearbook — “History is an antidote for despair” —has stuck with me for 45 […]
Vatican City, Oct 2, 2018 / 11:40 am (CNA/EWTN News).- “Always be prepared to make a defence….for the hope that is in you.” This was the verse of scripture that St. John Paul II chose […]
Opening a new front in the abortion wars, some of Connecticut’s progressive politicians have now taken aim at the state’s crisis pregnancy centers. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin is now targeting the city’s pregnancy support centers with […]
Washington D.C., Sep 30, 2018 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy See’s provisional agreement with China on the appointment of bishops has drawn criticism from some U.S. religious freedom leaders, who contend that it […]
In a memorable speech from Robert Bolt’s famous play A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More argues with his son-in-law, Will Roper, about the need for law, even for the most hardened of criminals. To […]
(The following homily preached for the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan, September 29, 2016 [Extraordinary Form] and appeared on CWR on September 30, 2016.) Laudetur […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: 1 out of 5 reels It’s not a good sign of things to come when your children’s movie is directed by infamous torture-porn filmmaker Eli Roth (Cabin […]
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