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The surprising legacy of Archbishop Lefebvre
Friday, June 22, 2018
McCarrick: when did the Vatican know?
Friday, June 22, 2018
The West is rediscovering the sacred
Friday, June 22, 2018
Why is Rome sidelining Ukrainian church?
Thursday, June 21, 2018
McCarrick story: long time coming – and not the only one
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Why be Catholic?
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Wanted: a Catholic immigration reform
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Did Jesus forbid self-defense?
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Vatican: worldwide crisis of vocations
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Time is running out in Iraq
Monday, June 18, 2018
The religious, routed in Ireland and Canada
Monday, June 18, 2018
The progressive attack on early Christianity
Friday, June 15, 2018
Compulsory abortion in Ireland
Friday, June 15, 2018
Heavenly Bodies, Holy Practices
Thursday, June 14, 2018
What the Church must learn from the Barros affair
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Mary Eberstadt on #MeToo: An interview
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Life lessons from Leo XIII
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Stories of abortion — rejected
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Abortion is racist
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Pope’s letter to Chileans disappointing and insufficient
Monday, June 11, 2018
The pope’s reversal on German intercommunion
Monday, June 11, 2018
The return of the king
Friday, June 8, 2018
Why marriage is in crisis
Friday, June 8, 2018
Europe’s vanishing calm
Friday, June 8, 2018
Lessons from the past
Thursday, June 7, 2018
Pandering isn’t evangelization
Thursday, June 7, 2018
RFK’s assassination at 50
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Next pro-life battle: Northern Ireland
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Intercommunion hurts Catholic-Orthodox amity
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Is Spain lost too?
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Corpus Christi
Monday, June 4, 2018
Priesthood and celibacy
Monday, June 4, 2018
A Biblical meditation on aging
Friday, June 1, 2018
ND confusion on contraception
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Why was the pope silent on the Irish vote?
Thursday, May 31, 2018
The Rome we have lost- and gained
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
The Druids return to Ireland
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Ireland and the end of cultural Catholicism
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Ireland: an Obituary
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
The Trinity: A Mystery, not a puzzle
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Pope’s choice of cardinals hard to figure
Monday, May 28, 2018
Why such strong hatred for the Church?
Monday, May 28, 2018
The pope’s “quiet revolution”
Friday, May 25, 2018
Royal wedding sermon left something out
Friday, May 25, 2018
What happens in Germany . . .
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Vatican mysteries: the pope and Chile – and Venezuela
Thursday, May 24, 2018
A “shadow magisterium”?
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Pope Francis and the Chilean bishops crisis
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
What dismissing prayer after tragedies says about us
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Ireland’s momentous abortion referendum
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
