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Pro-Life Activist Who Faced FBI Arrest Reacts To Trump’s Pardon February 03, 2025
Paul Vaughn, one of 23 pro-life activists pardoned by President Donald Trump, told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday he is “overjoyed” by Trump’s decision.“What I mostly rejoice for is the ones who were in prison that are out today, some of ...
Report Gives Insights Into Men, Women Religious Making Perpetual Vows February 03, 2025
Those who embrace consecrated life “bring the hope of the Gospel to the world in both visible and hidden ways,” said Bishop Earl A. Boyea of Lansing, Michigan, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life...
It’s a New Landscape for Catholic Evangelism — and Activism December 10, 2024
Catholic political activism is at a crossroads. For about 40 years the pro-life and pro-family movements had a home within the Republican Party, while a small minority continued to fight for the soul of the Democratic Party.Two Supreme Court rulings,...
Group of Nuns Are Now Squatters in Their Own Convents December 10, 2024
One afternoon this past summer, a car sped out of the gates of a convent on the outskirts of a sleepy village in northern Spain and kept going until it reached another convent 85 miles away.Behind the wheel was a nun. In the passenger’s seat was anot...
‘Pilgrims of Hope’: Vatican Prepares to Welcome Millions for Holy Year December 09, 2024
The celebration of a Holy Year every 25 years is an acknowledgment that “the Christian life is a journey calling for moments of greater intensity to encourage and sustain hope as the constant companion that guides our steps toward the goal of our enc...
Jesus was Born to be Our Wisdom December 06, 2024
A central feature of most Christmas celebrations is the exchanging of gifts. While much of contemporary giving and receiving is simply materialism out of control, the practice itself is thoroughly rooted in God’s character and nature. At the very fir...
Bible Sales are Increasing. Is this a Good Thing? December 06, 2024
This is a great trend. The Bible has played a key role in the life of our nation.This gets back to a key question: What is the purpose of life? The Bible has the answer to that.Erwin Lutzer, long-time pastor of Moody Church and bestselling author, on...
The Closing of the British Mind December 05, 2024
We’ve had Writers Against Books so it’s not unexpected to see the arrival of Artists Against Art.Jewish sponsorship of the arts in the UK has been deemed vulgar, as the British appear to have swapped culture for kultur. The message, even from artists...
New Eyes December 05, 2024
I’ve often said to close friends—probably too casually—that divorce is harder than cancer. Here is what I mean.I was married to Don, the love of my life, for thirteen years. We had two young children and had built a life of goodness, chores, spontane...
Marriage Tips From Jacob? December 05, 2024
They say that the definition of a successful man is one who can earn more than his wife can spend. And the definition of a successful woman is one who can find such a man.It’s been more than a thousand years since polygamy was prohibited in Jewish li...
Jimmy Lai, Witness to Truth December 04, 2024
Media magnate Jimmy Lai, who has been unjustly imprisoned in solitary confinement for nearly four years because of his support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, continues to testify in his own defense, witnessing as much to his Catholic faith a...
A Place for Grief December 03, 2024
I have always enjoyed walking in cemeteries. They can be places of serenity where it is possible to escape the noise of everyday life. But when I strolled through Montparnasse Cemetery in 2019, it was not as refuge from the hectic pace of a trip to P...
The Codification of Anti-Jewish Hiring Policies December 02, 2024
There’s a case of apparent employment discrimination at UCLA that should put to rest once and for all the spurious idea that the current campus battles are about mere “free speech.”For over a year now we’ve been subjected to the whinging of the “pro-...
2 Different Stories About People Stepping Away From Faith December 02, 2024
Within one month’s time this fall, two different analyses of American religious disaffiliation have been published — the first, a book-length treatment from secular humanist sociologists, Ryan Cragun and Jesse M. Smith, on “the causes and consequence...
The Judeo-Christian Truth of America: A Conservative Perspective December 02, 2024
In the mosaic of American identity, few threads are as vibrant and enduring as those woven from Judeo-Christian values. This nation, born from the ideals of liberty and justice, carries within its cultural, legal, and moral fabric the unmistakable im...
Sharing the Gospel Amidst Buddhism’s Stronghold December 02, 2024
The modern global mission movement is generally viewed as starting in the late 18th century when William Carey left his home in England and established Gospel-centered mission efforts in India. Over the next century, many tribes from animist backgrou...
We Are All Fiddlers on the Roof September 25, 2024
But what distinguishes Tevye’s devotion to tradition above all is that it is not primarily a blind devotion to a rigid list of rules, but a life ongoingly addressed to God. Rewatching the 1971 film, I was startled to remember that the whole movie is ...
Pro-Life Voters Don't Have To Pick 'Lesser of Two Evils' September 25, 2024
While these major party options are bleak for pro-lifers, they should know that they don't have to vote for a proverbial "lesser of two evils" on Election Day. Instead they can cast a ballot for the greater good. There is a reliably pro-life option i...
Jesus in Eden September 24, 2024
At the end of his life, the American theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) was working on a massive summa that would show the beauty of the Triune God afresh. Edwards’s thesis was that the best way to see God’s beauty is to trace the history of how h...
In a First, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women September 23, 2024
Among Generation Z Christians, this dynamic is playing out in a stark way: The men are staying in church, while the women are leaving at a remarkable clip.Church membership has been dropping in the United States for years. But within Gen Z, almost 40...
Reading Scripture Through Embodied Eyes September 23, 2024
We all lead diverse sensory lives—in the form of memories, reflections, emotions, and events that become embedded into our embodied lives.It is through our five senses that we encounter the world, and these experiences get encoded into the fabric of ...
The Campus Ministry Boom September 23, 2024
In his senior year of high school, Chris faced a spiritual crisis. He’d grabbed his brass ring: an invitation to play football at Harvard. It was “the biggest high in my life,” he says. But then the high ended, and he was left feeling empty. “I had p...
Vatican II at 60: ‘Lumen Gentium’ Signaled a Historic Call to Live Holiness September 20, 2024
The universal call to holiness is a signature teaching of the Second Vatican Council. The topic forms the subject of the fifth chapter of Lumen Gentium, the Council’s dogmatic constitution on the Church. With this text, Vatican II stated decisively t...
Review: “All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life” September 20, 2024
In all of my reading, I have found David Bentley Hart to be one of the few contemporary Christian theologians and philosophers who could provide an answer to the yearning for new ideas articulated by my Thomism-appreciating friend. I first found Hart...
Maybe Kamala Harris is Not 'Pro-Life' — But Her Policies Are September 20, 2024
But when we vote for candidates, are we voting for them because of the beliefs they hold, or because of the policies they intend to enact? A voter may disagree with Harris' personal stance on abortion and still recognize, on the level of practical po...
