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.
Enduring Faith Amid Horror: The Priests of Dachau
At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945.
Wiping out the world
Our Lord was probably a teenager when the Roman general Publius Quinctilius Varus impaled himself on his own sword in despair for having lost three legions in combat with Germanic tribesmen.
Why Are We So Unhappy?
The recent spate of suicides by the rich and famous is a symptom of our growing sense of gloom.
Bare-Knuckle Religion
The recent pardon of the late world heavy weight champion Jack Johnson by our president was a gracious act long overdue.
Genocides and persecutions
At each Mass in our parish we recite the Prayer to Saint Michael, which was written by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 when the temporal sovereignty of the Holy See was under attack.
Popping A Cork For Abortion?
Convivium Editor-in-Chief Father Raymond de Souza asks how aborting babies has gone from being a rare individual choice to international cause for breaking out the bubbly.
Two ways of life
In the aftermath of the Second World War, an Oxford-based scientist wrote a short and moving book examining the truths of the Christian faith in a "scientific way."
