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Ending harassment requires more than laws
The ongoing wave of disclosures of sexual harassment across our country shows that while policies and laws are helpful, they do not solve...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Dec 5, 20174 min read


What’s changed since <em>Humanae Vitae</em>?
Throughout this academic year, Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a series of lectures, billed as the “first...

George Weigel
Nov 28, 20173 min read


A museum for which to be thankful
On September 29, 1952, the publication of the complete Revised Standard Version of the Bible was celebrated at the National Guard Armory...

George Weigel
Nov 22, 20173 min read


That which you most desire
(Photo: Pexels) In our Catholic tradition, we esteem the saints of heaven and ask them to help us with their prayers. But along with the...

Bishop Jorge Rodriguez
Nov 21, 20173 min read


Recovering a sense of celebration
With the seemingly ever-increasing number of days dedicated to celebrating various causes or events, the Church presents us with the...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Nov 20, 20173 min read


Doping Athletes
Image by Justin Smith from UK – Maria Sharapova – Wimbledon 2009, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7737952...
Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Nov 16, 20173 min read


As the Bard might say….
Four centuries after his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the human condition....

George Weigel
Nov 14, 20173 min read


When Heaven prays back
By the time you read this, All Saints Day will have come and gone. But, just to extend the feast a few more days, I want to share the...

Mary Beth Bonacci
Nov 10, 20173 min read


The Ethics of New Age Medicine
(Photos: Pexels) Patients who face serious illnesses are sometimes attracted to alternative medicines, also referred to as “holistic” or...
Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Nov 9, 20173 min read


“You have to decide.”
In writing Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II , one of my secondary intentions was to bury two urban legends: that...

George Weigel
Nov 8, 20173 min read


Saintly inspiration for new beginnings
(Photo by James Baca/Denver Catholic Register) It’s not that often that bishops are able to announce the kind of good news I am about to...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Nov 7, 20174 min read


Murderers’ Row, Soviet-style
One hundred years ago, on November 7, 1917, Lenin and his Bolshevik Party expropriated the chaotic Russian people’s revolution that had...

George Weigel
Oct 31, 20173 min read
Which Reformation? What Reform?
Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after the October 31 quincentenary of Luther’s 95 theses , there was no single...

George Weigel
Oct 25, 20173 min read


Decoding social media and teen suicide
Just a few weeks ago I learned with great sadness that a middle school and high school student in Littleton took their lives within two...

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila
Oct 24, 20173 min read


Debunking Reformation myths
In my last review, I looked at a number of new books on Martin Luther and genuine reformers in the Catholic tradition. In light of the...

Jared Staudt
Oct 23, 20175 min read


500 years later, who was Luther?
HIS329428 Martin Luther in clerical attire, 1529 (oil on panel) by Cranach, Lucas (1472-1553) (studio of); 51.5x36.3 cm; Deutsches...

Jared Staudt
Oct 18, 20174 min read


Whose bourgeois morality?
In the latest round of debate over Amoris Laetitia , Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family, a fervent defender...

George Weigel
Oct 18, 20173 min read


The <em>Catechism of the Catholic Church</em> at 25
John Paul II called the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 to assess what had gone right and what had gone wrong in two decades of implementing...

George Weigel
Oct 10, 20173 min read


In the wake of Vegas shooting, prayers still matter
LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 2: Mourners attend a candlelight vigil at the corner of Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard for the victims of...

Mary Beth Bonacci
Oct 5, 20173 min read


Fencing with bigots
…being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once...

George Weigel
Oct 4, 20173 min read
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