Whenever the subject of bogus relics comes up, you can count on someone saying, There are enough pieces of the True Cross to rebuild Noahs Ark!
On January 9, after baptizing 21 infants in the Sistine Chapel on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Pope Benedict captured international headlines for reminding Catholic parents throughout the world that they should be choosing Christian names for their children.
The practice of sacramental confession in the Catholic Church dropped off precipitously and practically overnight about forty years ago.
The annual "Status of Global Mission" report is unfailingly interesting, sometimes jarring, and occasionally provocative. This year it's all three.
Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," was one of the finest modern appeals to natural law.
Sometimes it takes a scientific study to reveal the obvious.
From a Catholic perspective, the unthinking disparagement of King George III, as some sort of tyrant should itself be disparaged.
Britain remains marinated in anti-Catholic mythology as a consequence of centuries of relentless propaganda by establishment interest groups.
In his essay "What If We Said, 'Wait?'" (Dec. 14), Father Michael Ryan describes his involvement in the liturgical renewal following the Second Vatican Council. Let me begin my response to his article by doing the same.
It's little known to the public or to elite commentators in the national discourse. But an amazing phenomenon has been uncovered in the social sciences: the more frequently Americans worship the better they do on every observable outcome measured to date.