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A widening divide between the religious and the "nones" - Colleen Carroll Campbell

In their 1985 bestseller, Habits of the Heart, sociologist Robert Bellah and his coauthors introduced America to a peculiar new religion: "Sheilaism."   Read more...

All Church Politics Is Local - Fr. Thomas Williams

In a rare exercise of collective muscle, the U.S. Bishops Committee on Doctrine issued a statement last Friday declaring that two pamphlets published by Professor Daniel Maguire of Marquette University “do not present authentic Catholic teaching.”  Read more...

Amen to a good offer - Father Raymond J. de Souza

The decision announced in Rome yesterday to create structures to allow Anglicans to convert to Catholicism in a corporate way, while retaining many of their Anglican traditions, is a major historical development.   Read more...

An insult to Catholics — and historians - Michael Coren

For Dan Brown’s fans, a primer on his many errors.   Read more...

Are Witches Real? - Father Dwight Longenecker

Aleister Crowley was an English witch.   Read more...

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history - Dinesh D'Souza

In recent months, a spate of atheist books have argued that religion represents, as End of Faith author Sam Harris puts it, "the most potent source of human conflict, past and present."  Read more...

Back to the Beginning: A Brief Introduction to the Ancient Catholic Church - George Sim Johnston

The culture is now flooded with bogus scholarship whose main purpose is to put Christianity — and especially orthodox Catholicism — on the defensive. But most Catholics have no idea how to respond, and more than a few take these books and documentaries at face value. After all, they have the imprimatur of the History Channel or a large publishing house like Doubleday.  Read more...

Bad Habits: Can we correct liturgical abuse in religious communities? - Father Vincent Capuano, S.J.

I have a dilemma and some questions I wish someone would help me with. This article does not attempt to answer questions so much as to pose them. Nonetheless, I will, toward the end of the article, suggest some tentative solutions. Let me explain the situation that I am in and why I set myself to the task of writing this essay.  Read more...

Benedict's Better Plan - Colleen Carroll Campbell

History proves that the Church thrives when it is challenging the culture, not imitating it.  Read more...

Benedict's first year - John L. Allen Jr.

As the one-year anniversary of Benedict XVI’s election neared, newspapers, news magazines and TV and radio outlets were scrambling, trying to outline what the last 12 months have taught us about the new leader of the 1.1-billion strong Roman Catholic church.  Read more...


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