How one Protestant’s pursuit of the Fourth Cup led him to the Catholic Church

An Orthodox fracture with serious consequences

By George Weigel on Sep 26, 2018 03:02 am
While Catholicism has been embroiled in a crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance reaching to the highest levels of the Church, Eastern Orthodoxy may be on the verge of an epic crack-up with major [...]
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Abp Eamon Martin: “We may be a minority in Ireland, but we can be a creative minority”

By Deborah Castellano Lubov on Sep 25, 2018 09:12 pm
“We as a Church need to restore our confidence that we have a message which is solid. Our house is built on rock,” Archbishop Eamon Martin, president of Irish bishops’ conference says, noting: “If we [...]
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How one Protestant’s pursuit of the Fourth Cup led him to the Catholic Church

By Paul Senz on Sep 25, 2018 08:48 pm
Dr. Scott Hahn has one of the most well-known conversion stories in recent memory, having made his way, over the course of years, from Presbyterianism and virulent anti-Catholicism to the Catholic Church. (The conversion story [...]
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Full text of Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference from Estonia

By Catholic News Agency on Sep 25, 2018 06:46 pm
Vatican City, Sep 25, 2018 / 03:49 pm (CNA).- The following is an unofficial transcript of the in-flight press conference on the papal plane returning from Tallinn, Estonia to Rome on Sept. 25, 2018. Greg [...]
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“Sex Scandal” exposes the irrational foundations, destructive nature of gender ideology

By Jeanette Flood on Sep 25, 2018 03:20 pm
“These days we hear about ‘climate change deniers.’ But the full-blown denial of something much more obvious—a reality that both science and our lived experience make plain—which started in the sixties has now reached a [...]
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Pope Francis and the current crisis of leadership

By Christopher R. Altieri on Sep 24, 2018 10:13 pm
The crisis of leadership in the Catholic Church is protracted, persistent, and global. It is already almost unbearably awful in its details, and has barely begun to be reported. What follows is neither reportage — [...]
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Confusion and mixed messages: A view from China

By Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. on Sep 24, 2018 05:07 pm
“During the past forty years, the Church in China has suffered severe persecution. . . . Please pray for the suffering Church in China!” – Ignatius Cardinal Gong Pinmei (June 30, 1991)  The Vatican has [...]
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The China Agreement: Beijing, Rome, and the Church’s Liberty

By Dr. Samuel Gregg on Sep 24, 2018 12:21 am
From the Catholic Church’s very beginning, its relationship with Caesar has been, as they say,“complicated.” Christianity has always respected legitimate state authority. It has equally insisted, however, that there are parts of life where the [...]
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The Voices of Misery

By Aquae Regiae on Sep 23, 2018 05:17 pm
Discouragement is a powerful and dangerous thing.  Whenever we as Catholics revisit the Liturgical Season of Advent, we recall the powerful words of the Prophets such as Isaiah, “Comfort, comfort my People” (Isa 40:1), and [...]
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“The Lord upholds my life”: Reflections on 1968, the annus horribilis

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Sep 22, 2018 11:48 pm
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the graduation from St. Joseph High School in Toms River, New [...]
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