Blaming the Wartime Pope
During the second world war, Pope Pius XII was lauded for his singular efforts to halt the carnage, writes Newsweek's Kenneth Woodward.
Out of the Closet and into Chastity
My pilgrimage from being a homosexual-rights activist to living life as a chaste Catholic began in earnest when I read the writings of a modern-day Protestant martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Rome's Shame in China
"Observers have described religious persecution in China over the last year to be of an intensity not seen since the Cultural Revolution."
The Jews Are a Sign
The Jewish people and their faith are more than a historical curiosity — they are one sign of the credibility of the God of Revelation.
The Unbegun Life
A long time ago, even before the Dark Ages — we're talking about the 1970's, the Stoned Age — when I was in Junior High, I stood up in an English class and gave a speech against abortion.
The true intellectual has today become a dissident
I travelled from Poland, already inwardly frozen by the eerie chill of Communism — and Communist Prague did nothing to raise my spirits.
U.S. Bishops Must Clear Up This Communion Confusion
If one in a state of mortal sin — no matter what the sin — has not sacramentally confessed and been absolved, he must not receive Holy Communion. There are no exceptions.
Boris gets it right on anti-semitism
I think, in a way, that the best response to the near-slaughter (five were injured — many more victims were intended) in Monsey, N.Y., came before the event and from across the water.
Obsession with victimhood
This excellent book "The Victim Cult: How the culture of blame hurts everyone and wrecks civilizations" was eight years in the writing and it shows.
