Two Englishmen whose lives were commentary on the question of conscience
For Thomas More, following his conscience led him to martyrdom; for John Henry Newman, following his conscience led him to become a Catholic. [...]
View ArticleThe Last Jesuit in China
Dr. Amanda C. R. Clark's book China’s Last Jesuit tells the little known story of Fr. Charles J. McCarthy and the end of the mission [...]
View ArticleJohn Henry Newman’s long war on liberalism
Blessed John Henry Newman’s devastating critique of liberal religion remains even more relevant in our own time. [...]
View ArticleWhen evil triumphed: The 100th anniversary of Russia’s October Revolution
The centenary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 should be an occasion for understanding Marxism’s amoral and pseudo-religious nature. [...]
View ArticleWomen and the Protestant Reformation
Luther and the Reformers went to war against the evangelical counsels as ideals and as the core of a vowed, religious life. Every woman—it was [...]
View ArticleThe Reformation reformed
The chronology of the Reformation no longer opens with Luther’s 95 Theses. The seeds of revolt were planted long before 1517. [...]
View ArticleA Catholic guide to great books and films about communism
Not only do most young people not learn about the horror and evil wrought by communism, it’s not uncommon to hear seemingly well-informed academics, politicians, [...]
View ArticleIn the Habit: A History of Catholicism and Tobacco
Saints who smoked, popes who puffed, and others who snuffed. [...]
View ArticleThe dramatic story of the priest who died on a Vietnam battlefield
In his death on the battlefield and in all his time serving men in battle, Fr.Vincent Capodanno completely ignored the basic instinct for survival. He [...]
View ArticleRevisiting and understanding the “Galileo Affair”
"The Galileo Affair needed to be looked at again," says Dom Paschal Scotti, "because it is one the great events, climactic events even, in European [...]
View ArticleJohn Henry Newman, Edward Gibbon, and the true character of history
The rise of Christianity, for Newman, primarily involved those who accepted and cooperated with God’s particular Providence and those who rejected and spurned it. Gibbon, [...]
View ArticleRemembering St. John Paul II’s controversial 1987 pilgrimage to Chile
Now is an appropriate time to recall that historic visit and the role that John Paul II and the Chilean bishops played in Chile’s peaceful [...]
View Article“The smaller cage is the better cage”: What has China to do with Albania?
The decades-long persecution of the Catholic Church in Albania by the Communist government provides a significant case for the Holy See to ponder. [...]
View ArticleHow the Achilli Trial changed John Henry Newman
At this pivotal point in his life, when so many of his Catholic endeavors lay before him, Newman was transformed, becoming an English Catholic at home [...]
View ArticleThe Saints of Holy Week
During Holy Week, we tend to forget the saints that may be on the calendar. Here a some you know well, along with a few [...]
View ArticleThe Unapologetic Apologist: Five lessons from St. Justin Martyr
Our forebears in the Faith were much stronger than us morally and spiritually. Not for them the lax observance and flaccid sentimentality that characterize so [...]
View ArticleRemembering Karl Marx, Prophet of Violence and Terror
On the bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth, the world should be excoriating his ideas and the terrorism they spawned, not excusing or celebrating them. [...]
View ArticleTerrorism, restlessness, and Bastille Day
The tantalizing lie of revolution is the idea that heaven-on-earth sits right around the corner, provided some hated class can be overthrown and then purged [...]
View Article9/11: When John Paul II grieved with America
"I entrust to the mercy of the Most High the helpless victims of this tragedy, for whom I offered Mass this morning, invoking upon them [...]
View ArticleSt. Peter Damian’s battle against clerical homosexuality offers useful...
When the eremitic monk and reformer Peter Damian cast his critical gaze upon the Catholic Church of the mid-eleventh century, he encountered a panorama of corruption that would have appeared daunting...
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