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Rome's Shame in China

Robert Royal

"Observers have described religious persecution in China over the last year to be of an intensity no...

The Jews Are a Sign

Casey Chalk

The Jewish people and their faith are more than a historical curiosity — they are one sign of the cr...

Loving with All Our Being

Caryll Houselander

Our human relationships with one another are a giving of Christ to one another, and a receiving of C...

Preserved by Mercy, Mary, and the Martyrs

Pope John Paul II

In the heroic testimony of [Saint Maria Goretti], her forgiveness of the man who killed her and her ...

The Isenheim Altarpiece

Father George W. Rutler

I knew an elderly Scotswoman who read the Bible each night by the light of a candle.

Introduction: The Reason for the Seasons

Rev. James V. Schall. S.J.

Over the years, I have written a number of relatively short essays on various Church feasts.

The Unbegun Life

Dale Ahlquist

A long time ago, even before the Dark Ages — we're talking about the 1970's, the Stoned Age — when I...

Sir Roger, Good and Faithful

Casey Chalk

The Catholic Church lost a great ally on January 12 when conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scr...

The true intellectual has today become a dissident

Roger Scruton

I travelled from Poland, already inwardly frozen by the eerie chill of Communism — and Communist Pra...

Mistaken predictions

Father George W. Rutler

Prophets proclaim the truth, and they predict the future only in a derivative sense of cautioning ab...

The Gift of the Church: Forward

Anthony Esolen

What wonders the Church has to show us, to give us, to nourish our hearts and minds and souls, so we...

The Gift of the Church: Preface

Ryan N.S. Topping

"It is high time that Catholics remembered the greatness of what Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit ha...

What Zechariah Learned in Silence

Robert Cardinal Sarah

God achieves everything, acts in all circumstances, and brings about all our interior transformation...

Faith to See the Talents

Father Tadeusz Dajczer

Faith is sharing in God's vision of reality….

New Documentary Offers Rare Glimpse of Benedict XV…

Edward Pentin

The half-hour documentary, which aired Jan. 3 on German television, is dignified and respectful of t...

U.S. Bishops Must Clear Up This Communion Confusio…

Msgr. Charles Pope

If one in a state of mortal sin — no matter what the sin — has not sacramentally confessed and been ...

Multitudes in the Valley of Decision! A Meditation…

Msgr. Charles Pope

A grave deficiency of modern times is the loss of the sense that our lives are caught up in a tremen...

Stealing from Churches

Roger Scruton

My years as a voyeur of holiness brought me into contact with true believers, and taught me that fai...

A genuinely transgressive act

Roger Kimball

Regular readers of this column know that we are often engaged in a species of cultural pathology...

On Saints Basil and Gregory Nazianzen and the need…

Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas

St. Gregory tells us plainly: "We seemed to be two bodies with a single spirit." Centuries before, A...

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