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Vatican Opens Probe on ‘Trial of the Century’ Amid Widening Italian Privacy Scandal


Cardinal McElroy, homosexuality, and the repudiation of doctrine...
Larry Chapp
The entire LGBTQ movement is a counter religion, which accounts for why it is held with a deep religious fervor and why it is always accompanied by a deep loathing for the traditional Christian construal of the sacramental anthropology of the sex act. The rainbow flag is, therefore, much more than a mere symbol of sexual diversity but is also the central icon of a new religion.


Skiing priests illustrate the ‘rest of the story’ about the Catholic Church...
John Allen
To invoke a medical analogy, journalism rarely delivers a whole-body scan when it covers a subject. A news report is more akin to a targeted x-ray, focused on whatever part of the body is creating the biggest problem at the moment – great for identifying a specific ailment, not so much for capturing a patient’s overall state of health.


How a surprising detail in bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants...


Michael Toscano: The False Idol of Technology...


Pope’s Sunday Angelus: ‘Gift and Forgiveness Are the Essence of God’s Glory’...


This Sunday, Jesus Reveals the Mystery of Suffering at the Heart of the Cosmos...
Tom Hoopes
Before looking at how the Gospel this Sunday begins, please notice how it ends. The Gospel reading ends with an amazing glimpse at the inner dialogue of the Trinity, which shows the “humility” of God — the Son glorifying the Father and the Father honoring the Son. This is from the 12th chapter of John, just after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Holy Week has begun, the week that Jesus begins by hearing...


Church Leaders Decry Kidnapping of 287 Schoolchildren in Nigeria...


Will You Live in Christ’s Light or Die in the Darkness?


From Teddy Roosevelt to the Resolute, here’s a look at the 6 desks of the Oval Office...


Not Keeping The Faith: Survey Reveals Majority Of Americans Say Religion Losing Influence In Public Life...
Clemente Lisi
The vast majority of U.S. adults say religion’s role in public life has declined — and a very large number of them are not happy about it. A Pew Research Center report, released on Friday, revealed the stark finding that 80% of U.S. adults agree with the statement that the role of faith in everyday American life is shrinking.


Flannery O’Connor? Not a bad model for the National Eucharistic Revival, if you ask me...
Fr. Damian Ference
There is a famous story about Flannery O’Connor defending the Eucharist that every Catholic should know, and many already do. As Flannery tells it, as a young writer she was taken by some friends to a dinner party in the home of some famous New York intellectuals. For most of the evening, O’Connor sat in silence. She explains...


35 Years Ago, Venerable Jérôme Lejeune Warned Us About IVF...
K.V. Turley
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is back in the headlines. In February 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen human embryos constitute children under state statute. The nine-judge court said in an 8-1 ruling that the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act is “sweeping and unqualified,” and extends its provisions to children “regardless of location.” This decision, along with the debate it has prompted...


Word on Fire to launch master’s program in evangelization with St. Thomas-Houston...


Pope Francis: “I’m Not Considering Resigning But Would Want to Be Called ‘Bishop Emeritus of Rome’ If I Did”...


The Importance of Preaching on Sin...
Marlon De La Torre
In the infamous Prodigal Son discourse, St. Luke describes the moment the youngest son, already in a dire predicament after having squandered his inheritance, was left desiring to eat from the food pods given to the swine. The progress of the son’s journey away from his father and the entire household left him with a sense of despair and desperation with no one to care for him let alone care for himself...


Rediscover the Ordinary This Spring...


The survival tactics of Nicodemus provide lessons for today...

‘Two-parent married family’ promotes white supremacy, says George Mason University professor ...


Where Is the Laughter?
Carrie Gress
A few years ago, I read a series of World War II novels with rather unsatisfying endings. After epic stories of war, bloodshed, human cruelty, and the strong hand of fate, these novels concluded with men who returned home from the war, abandoning their childhood faith. In its place, they embraced a kind of cynical maturity, thinking they were all the wiser than the superstitions of old...


“Where I Am, There Also Will My Servant Be”...
Fr. Victor Feltes
“Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.” Jesus says, “Where I am, there also will my servant be.” His statement is descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive. He describes what is the case, he prescribes how we should act, and he predicts what will be...


Make Friends With Friends of God Like St. Patrick...
John Clark
Back in 1991, The Jerry Springer Show debuted on American television. The show was presumably intended to shock viewers, as the host paraded out bizarre guests engaged in even more bizarre situations — most of them falling within the realm of weird and multiple violations of the sixth and ninth commandments.


Yes, church camps matter more than ever in this scary day and age...
Terry Mattingly
If you want to get upset about the state of our world today, then open an Internet browser and run a search for “anxiety,” “depression” and then “smartphones.” Now add one more trendy term to that search — “hockey stick.” At this point, let’s head straight into some summary material from one story that pops up in the search results, a Financial Times piece with this headline: “Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health.”


Some people today think we’re just ‘meat suits’ — St. Thomas Aquinas is needed to drive away this error with a hot poker...
Chad Engelland
Seven hundred and fifty years ago Thursday (March 7), St. Thomas Aquinas died, having written some 8 million words in two decades of intensive work, including his masterpiece, the Summa Theologiae. He was only 49. His admirers over the ages include many in North America. The Southern novelist Flannery O’Connor, memorable for her gritty realism, famously read a passage of Aquinas’s Summa every night...


A Man Named ‘Anne,’ Synod Everlasting, and She’s a Lady...
Ed Condon
What we know about “Anne” is that he was martyred in York on March 16, 1589, for the capital crime of being a Catholic priest. But apart from the circumstances of his arrest and execution, we know little for certain about him — even the name is believed to be an alias under which he was traveling at the time of his arrest...


Belize awaits new bishop after puzzling resignation...
Luke Coppen
The Catholic diocese that covers the Central American nation of Belize saw the resignation of its only auxiliary bishop this week, two months after the death of the bishop who had guided it since 2017. Pope Francis accepted the resignation March 13 of the Illinois-born Bishop Christopher Glancy, who had served as an auxiliary in the Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan since 2012.


In a new Gallup poll 30% of Gen Z women say they’re LGBTQ. Is that true? And what’s driving this surge?


The Power of Jesus Christ Is Proclaimed in Our Patience and Suffering...


For 50 years, Fran Maier has offered many gifts to the Catholic Church. One of them is his clear-eyed vision of things as they really are...


Controversial Sister Lucía Caram and Religión Digital team meet with Pope Francis...


Rose Hawthorne’s Remarkable Life Story in the Spotlight as Cause for Canonization Advances...


Cardinal Fernández Misleads...


A Very Short Introduction to the History of Catholic Debates About the Multiverse and Extraterrestrial Intelligence...


Rupnik still listed as Vatican consultant as DDF trial continues...


A Study of Fear in the Story of Chicken Little...


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