Tucker Carlson schools Planned Parenthood VP in the art of plain English...
You have to hand it to Planned Parenthood: No matter how far science advances or how precise ultrasounds become, they are wholly committed to Latin. Like a dog with a bone, you cannot shake the Latin word fetus from their talking points. In an interview with Tucker Carlson about proposed cuts of half a billion dollars to the abortion giant in the American Healthcare Act...
What's the most difficult place to get to in the world?
As a child, I thought Catholics weren’t Christians. Then my mother gave me some wise advice...
In this age of rebellion against God the Creator, John Senior has much to teach us...
Pope Francis recently pointed to a troubling characteristic of our time. Speaking to the Polish Bishops at World Youth Day, he related that “in a conversation with Pope Benedict . . . he said to me: ‘Holiness, this is the age of sin against God the Creator.’” There are of course direct ways to sin against God the Creator: destroying human life...
When the children crashed their dad's BBC interview: The family speaks...
The deepest metro stations in the world...
Fr. George Rutler: ‘The Benedict Option risks becoming a ghetto mentality’...
How many of us take political positions without ever looking the most affected people in the eye?
Saint Patrick’s Day this year marks the one-year anniversary of a little bit of a miracle. It was on March 17, 2016, that then–Secretary of State John Kerry surprised the world — and not least, the activists who were pleading for this action — by recognizing that Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria are...
The Church’s elephant in the room is our pervasive lack of charity...
In many ways, we have grown accustomed to a life of charity grown cold. Of course failures in charity have been a challenge from day one. But history cannot lead us simply to shrug our shoulders and say, “Oh, well.” The fact that things have often more or less been this way in the Church does not absolve us of the imperative of doing something to change that status quo...
The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness...
Pope Francis marks 4th anniversary of pontificate...
A behind-the-scenes look at Marcus Grodi's ‘The Journey Home’ on EWTN...
I recently had the opportunity to be a guest on EWTN’s “The Journey Home”, produced by The Coming Home Network International. The experience unveiled so many interesting things I did not know about the show — things that I think you’ll be really surprised by, and really proud of.
A thank-you note to our priests...
Seven years ago, I came into the Catholic Church thanks, in part, to the gentle, but deeply wise Father Michael. I am further sustained by the energetic and educating Father Mike. Week in and week out, through their own brutal schedules, inclement weather and periods of illness these priests have buoyed me with consecrated bread and wine...
Pope's Sunday Angelus: The Cross is more than jewelry – it's a call to love...
4 thoughts about Medjugorje and the authentic work of God...
As I was making my way to the Catholic Church, I was deeply blessed by an encounter with a 17th century priest who taught me, through his writings, how to overcome aridity in prayer. This was a significant breakthrough for me and brought me tremendous relief. I developed an instant affinity to this priest and looked for other writings of his that might help me...
This woman proudly went to work on 'A Day Without Women'...
It's official: Pope Francis will visit Colombia September 6-11...
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Why it matters who Jesus is...
I have been reading, with both profit and delight, Thomas Joseph White’s latest book, The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology. Fr. White, one of the brightest of a new generation of Thomas interpreters, explores a range of topics in this text—the relationship between Jesus’ human and divine natures, whether the Lord experienced the beatific vision...
Watch: College students support religious freedom for Muslims. For Christians, not so much...
Italian rabbi “indignant and embittered” by “anti-Judaism” in Pope Francis' theological ideas...
10 commandments to help you examine your liturgical life ...
“Disposing” of the Holy Eucharist and the sacrarium...
For those of you in Columbia Heights, the sacrarium is a special sink in a sacristy whose pipe drain goes down into the earth rather than into a septic or sewage system. Anything that has to do with the Eucharist or other blessed objects shouldn’t be put into the sewage system. Rather, it should be put onto or into the ground...
“Treat Yo’self!”: When small indulgences take over...
A memorable episode of NBC’s Parks and Recreation involved two of the series’ most flamboyant characters, Tom and Donna, inviting the uptight budget-manager Ben along as they spend a day relaxing and indulging all of their material whims. “I really want this dress,” Donna says, emerging from a dressing room, “and I like this crystal beetle...
This secret trick will save you from getting lost in Central Park forever...
7 of history's most brilliant scientists people forget were Catholic...
‘Beauty and the Beast’ falls flat with slavish imitation and risqué humor...
Can a realistically computer-rendered French gilt bronze candelabra be debonair? Jaunty? Rakish, even? Can a gleaming, finely detailed English bone china teapot be a warmly maternal, comforting presence? When she tells you it’ll turn out right in the end, will it put your heart at ease? If an antique English tortoiseshell bracket clock is vain...
Inside the loneliest five-star restaurant in the world...
On the need for curiosity in evangelization...
In the world of evangelization, the concept of curiosity is almost never discussed. If anything, evangelizers are encouraged to quickly satisfy any curiosity by supplying all sorts of answers to questions that arise about the faith. Apologetical tracts, books, catechisms, and videos abound. Curiosity, it would seem, is something to be quashed or at least overcome quickly...
Jesus loves you with an intense thirst...
The 2nd Sunday of Lent: Every round goes higher, higher...
Divorce numbers rise among older Americans, fall among younger couples...
Are my sins too many and too bad for God's forgiveness?
“My sins are too many and too bad.” Sadly and mistakenly, such is the thought process that will keep many people away from the Sacrament of Confession this Lent, just like many years of Lents before it. We live in a world that often underemphasizes the badness of sin—there’s not much doubt about that. However, it is also possible to overemphasize the badness of sin...
Jesus Christ loves you with an intense thirst, as if you were the only person on Earth...
Pope Francis: “I also know the empty moments...”...
On March 9, the left-leaning German newspaper Die Zeit published the first ever interview of Pope Francis by a German publication. The discussion, in Italian with the journalist, Giovanni di Lorenzo, was wide-ranging and included the pontiff’s reflections on clerical celibacy, the crisis in the Knights of Malta, upcoming travels and his own spiritual life...
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