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Does anyone doubt that America needs to be converted?

Peter Steinfels has done the Catholic Church a tremendous service by telling some disturbing truths about the August 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report.

Julia Beck was booted from the Baltimore LGBTQ Commission because she referred to a male rapist as male even though he says he's female. Beck is both a lesbian and a self-confessed "radical feminist" who told her story on a panel at the Heritage Foundation this week.

The fight to protect babies and their mothers will involve a great deal of spiritual warfare. We will not despair.

J. D. Flynn, editor-in-chief of the Denver-based Catholic News Agency, talks about parenting, adoption, abortion, and living as a Catholic journalist.

If the law allows for the deliberate killing of one human being, none of the rest of us is safe.

As soon as anyone claims that an excommunication is available by a "straightforward application" of the law, canonical warning bells should go off.

Let's look at the bill text itself.

It has become commonplace for media professionals, members of the political and entertainment classes, and their like-minded followers to latch onto narratives that should inspire a great deal of skepticism.

The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, release Echoing the Mystery, a resource for those wishing to catechize and evangelize.

"I'm the most happy when I'm able to help."

The reason? Restoring some tradition to the liturgy in an attempt to reinvigorate his rapidly dying parish.

The only charge levied against Fr. Dwyer, and the only reason cited by Bishop Hurley for his removal: parish "division" caused by his very modest efforts to increase reverence and beauty within one weekend Mass time.

Police are investigating and said churches and supermarkets in the region and further afield had been targeted "over a period of months."

At least 20 people were killed and 111 wounded after two bombs exploded minutes apart during Sunday Mass in a Catholic cathedral on the southern Philippine island of Jolo.

Reminiscent of early Christians, Chinese Catholics must move in secret and meet in out-of-the-way places, while priests face arrest if caught.

Metaphysical naturalism is the belief that nature is all there is and that no supernatural beings such as God exist. It is a philosophical prejudice that has little grounding in actual science and is increasingly challenged on both philosophical and scientific grounds.

We seem to be so made that when we don't speak against an evil we see, eventually we come to speak for it.

Romance is rather ordinary.

One doesn't usually go to St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica for advice on emotional matters, but...