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The Vatican as peacemaker in Ukraine?

George Weigel, First Things

Friday, June 2, 2023


Dodgers pitcher on team’s celebration of anti-Catholic drag queens: ‘God cannot be mocked’

Peter Pinedo, NCRegister/CNA

Friday, June 2, 2023


Vatican appoints Bishop Olson ‘commissary’ of Texas Carmelite nuns

The Pillar

Friday, June 2, 2023


Breaking up the initials LGBTQ+

Ken Craycraft, Catholic Herald

Friday, June 2, 2023


Immortal Sails

Alfred Noyes

Friday, June 2, 2023


The Pelagian Drinking Song

Hilaire Belloc

Thursday, June 1, 2023


Poland: attacks on St. John Paul II backfiring

Filip Mazurczak, First Things

Thursday, June 1, 2023


Austrian Catholic philosopher: Church in terrible danger of collapse

Edward Pentin

Thursday, June 1, 2023


2021 Vatican corruption trial grinds towards closing arguments

The Pillar

Thursday, June 1, 2023


Ireland: Less Catholic

Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review

Thursday, June 1, 2023


Masks are coming off in Germany

Birgit Kelle, Catholic World Report

Wednesday, May 31, 2023


Defining religion in court

Mark Movsesian, First Things

Wednesday, May 31, 2023


Pope: Synod is journey in the Spirit, not ‘a parliament’

Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service/USCCB

Wednesday, May 31, 2023


East is east and west is west

Rudyard Kipling

Wednesday, May 31, 2023


Viva Arch Vegas! LV diocese elevated

The Pillar

Wednesday, May 31, 2023


Vatican releases pastoral reflection on Christian engagement with social media

Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency

Tuesday, May 30, 2023


Bureaucrats in hell

C.S. Lewis

Tuesday, May 30, 2023


Thousands visit Sister Wilhelmina’s body over holiday weekend

Shannon Mullen, NCRegister

Tuesday, May 30, 2023


Sainted saunterers: prayer and praise on the pilgrim road to Chartres

Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald

Tuesday, May 30, 2023


Social media robs children of childhood

Fr. Dominic Bouck, First Things

Tuesday, May 30, 2023


Bishop Bätzing: most Germans back Synodal Way

Edward Pentin, NCRegister

Monday, May 29, 2023


Time for a Catholic literary revival?

Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald

Monday, May 29, 2023


Courage

G.K. Chesterton

Monday, May 29, 2023


Pope interview: migration, Ukraine, personhood, celibacy

Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service

Monday, May 29, 2023


I have come to cast a fire on the earth

Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission

Monday, May 29, 2023


Nebraska passes first-ever school choice bill

Catholic Vote

Friday, May 26, 2023


Biden Admin says abortion restrictions weaken armed forces

Robert G. Marshall, Catholic Culture

Friday, May 26, 2023


John Paul II’s vision of a “free economy”

George Weigel, First Things

Friday, May 26, 2023


900 murdered in one Nigerian state: most were Christians

OSV News

Friday, May 26, 2023


The Whitsun Weddings

Philip Larkin

Friday, May 26, 2023


Iraqi Christians struggling to survive and thrive

Edward Pentin, NCRegister

Thursday, May 25, 2023


Justice Gorsuch blasts COVID lockdowns, church closings

Peter Pinedo, Catholic News Agency

Thursday, May 25, 2023


Divina Commedia

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thursday, May 25, 2023


L.A. Archdiocese (and others) slam Dodgers’ drag-group cave-in

Catholic Vote

Thursday, May 25, 2023


Archbishop of dangerous Nigerian diocese: five guard dogs and an armed escort

Oleńka Hamilton, Catholic Herald

Thursday, May 25, 2023


German bishop: lay homilies on the agenda

Luke Coppen, The Pillar

Wednesday, May 24, 2023


Stories about St. John Paul II and sex abuse are unsubstantiated

Paweł Skibiński, Catholic Herald

Wednesday, May 24, 2023


A Prayer in Darkness

G.K. Chesterton

Wednesday, May 24, 2023


Everyone’s a believer

Fr. Jerry J. Pokorsky, Catholic Culture

Wednesday, May 24, 2023


Massachusetts panel: Child-abuse laws should protect transgender kids from parents

Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency

Wednesday, May 24, 2023


Caedmon

Denise Levertov

Tuesday, May 23, 2023


Pope will travel to World Youth Day, Fatima

Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency

Tuesday, May 23, 2023


Humanae Vitae: first shots fired in a coming war?

Diane Montagna, Catholic Herald

Tuesday, May 23, 2023


Capital punishment and the law of nations

Edward Feser, Catholic World Report

Tuesday, May 23, 2023


Church in Germany: major declines in numbers & revenue

Jonathan Luxmore, Our Sunday Visitor

Tuesday, May 23, 2023


Nun sues ‘pure evil’ Bishop after she confesses to sexual affair while high on fentanyl

Isabel Vincent, NYPost

Monday, May 22, 2023


Jesus prepares a way for us

Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission

Monday, May 22, 2023


Don’t spare the rod

Daniel Buck, First Things

Monday, May 22, 2023


Vatican: Italian cardinal entrusted with Ukraine peace mission

Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency

Monday, May 22, 2023


Pentecost

Malcolm Guite

Monday, May 22, 2023