Bloodshed rarely ends the instant freedom rings out. When the Berlin Wall fell, tyrants still murdered the innocent.
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The papal visit to Thailand and Japan will give Pope Francis the chance to address five key themes of his social teaching, and two general questions about his pontificate.
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Baltimore provided a new USCCB executive. But who speaks for bishops is not determined by official office.
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As we are seeing it played out in the Society of Jesus, social reform cannot be separated from the proclamation of the gospel.
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The drama of Catholic history for the last 200 years has been the move from a hostile confrontation with modernity to an attempt to provide a Christian foundation for the noble parts of the modern project.
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Three observations about the Cherry firing – the comic, the cowardly, and the CBC.
Read MoreDid Don Cherry say something out of bounds? Incendiary? Are you shocked, shocked that there is gambling going on in Casablanca?
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Father Raymond de Souza shakes some political family trees to observe the fallout of dynastic ambition on democratic life.
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The great lesson that da Vinci offers to our age is that of a gifted mind that ranged widely across various fields of knowledge and refused to be restricted.
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MacKay’s position, held by others, is that despite Scheer’s public support for same-sex marriage laws currently in force, it is his private religious views that are intolerable.
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For nearly a century, Argentine economic policy has kept the poor in poverty, and added to their number.
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The canonization of the extraordinary Cardinal John Henry Newman leads further reflection on the day reserved to celebrate ordinary Christians.
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The Pan-Amazon synod manifested a certain lack of ‘care for all the Churches’ in three ways.
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The rejection of Mother Cabrini for the New York City statue program honouring noteworthy women brought the whole project into disrepute.
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Benedict XV’s apostolic letter, Maximum Illud, calling for a renewal of missionary fervor in distant lands was absent from the Amazon synod.
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THE MYSTERY OF THE EUCHARIST: Special Section commentary — What the Pew Survey Reveals About Belief in the Real Presence.
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At a certain point, a pattern becomes clear — only those who wish to close their eyes do not see it.
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In the midst of the howling, the key result will be a Britain more autonomous from Europe, and a Northern Ireland less tied to the U.K.
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