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Dear Pope Francis: Come to America!
Thursday, May 16, 2024
The most popular Catholic outside the Vatican is Bishop Robert Barron
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Can conservative and liberal Catholics coexist?
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
On Faggioli’s feverish “Trump-Strickland-Barron” fantasy
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Pro-life politics after ‘Dobbs’
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: a call to action
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Beethoven’s ‘Ninth’ v. Tom Brady’s obscenities
Monday, May 13, 2024
The key role of media in evangelization
Monday, May 13, 2024
Cardinal Erdő: ‘A man of unity, a bridge between East and West’
Friday, May 10, 2024
My kingdom for an adult! Analyzing Columbia’s antisemitic ‘Tentifada’
Friday, May 10, 2024
Cancelling Joan of Arc?
Thursday, May 9, 2024
The Methodist split: a cautionary tale
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Are we all ‘cafeteria Catholics’ now?
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Unpacking the power of the Creed
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Erasing Christianity in France
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Happily ever after? Secular modernity’s irrational discomfort with boy meets girl
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The Associated Press sees Catholicism in political terms
Monday, May 6, 2024
Clericalism v. faithfulness at the Synod on Synodality
Monday, May 6, 2024
Bishops, borders, and the (bully) pulpit
Friday, May 3, 2024
What the pro-Palestinian campus protests are really about
Friday, May 3, 2024
Against cosmic melancholia
Thursday, May 2, 2024
The dark side to Donald Trump’s support of IVF
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Who’s up and who’s down: the race to be the next pope
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Our pagan society
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Gaza vs. Ukraine: Selective Outrage at America’s Colleges
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
A rallying cry to the Church by one of 20th century’s great intellectual converts
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Pope suggests Catholics go “parish-shopping”
Monday, April 29, 2024
Radicalized students will regret backing Hamas
Monday, April 29, 2024
How cloistered, silent Carthusians made a big noise with a Chartreuse shortage
Friday, April 26, 2024
‘Fr. Justin,’ AI priest, ‘defrocked’
Friday, April 26, 2024
Columbia chaplain: ‘Antisemitism must be stopped’
Thursday, April 25, 2024
American bishops shout “Fire!” after helping to set the blaze
Thursday, April 25, 2024
‘The Habsburg Way’: Lessons for Today, From Openness to Life to How to Die Well
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Auschwitz survivor: antisemitism is a ‘cancer’ spreading across America
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The Carthusians of Vermont
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The Vatican’s 36-hour week
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
National Public Radio chief says reporters “are not focused on the truth”
Monday, April 22, 2024
Katherine Pakaluk and the women defying the ‘birth dearth’
Monday, April 22, 2024
On excommunication
Friday, April 19, 2024
What is humanity’s infinite dignity?
Friday, April 19, 2024
Trust the science, not the scientists
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Resisting LGBTQ madness in Catholic colleges
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Spinning Balthasar
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Mother Cabrini was booked on Titanic
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Time to remove Rupnik’s art
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Nine facts about U.S. Catholics
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
The Populist Revolt: Europe’s Had Enough!
Monday, April 15, 2024
Divine dignity alone is strictly infinite
Monday, April 15, 2024
A voice unheard: The absence of deacons at the Synod
Friday, April 12, 2024
The rational credibility of Christianity
Friday, April 12, 2024
