German dictator Adolf Hitler once set out to destroy the Catholic Church: his regime shut down Catholic schools and arrested priests and nuns, imprisoning them en masse in the infamous concentration camps. Many were executed. According to some historical sources,…
China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women. — James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) Scattered about Christendom are any number of cathedrals dedicated to Saint Paul the Apostle, the most famous of which is surely…
The Catholic Church has suffered the passing of another Pontiff. Early on Easter Monday, Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88, according to Vatican authorities. The Pope was hospitalized on Feb. 14, over concerns about worsening bronchitis, and…
I was awakened early this morning by my wife informing me that Pope Francis has died. “Wow,” was my instant verbal reaction. I grabbed my bedside rosary ring and did a Divine Mercy Chaplet for his soul. It was probably…
American Catholics ought to be alarmed but, in a way, inspired by some recent statistics on the Catholic faith in the U.S. The Pew Research Center published its Religious Landscape Study recently, including an analysis of the habits, beliefs, and…
One of America’s most progressive prelates is pushing an open borders interpretation of Holy Scripture, in direct defiance of both the longstanding teachings of the Catholic Church and President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. At an event entitled “Catholic Social Teaching…
Young men are simply not signing up to become priests — certainly not in the numbers that they used to. According to the Vatican’s Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, the past 12 years have seen a continuing decline in the number of…
Over the past several months, numerous prominent Catholic bishops in the U.S. have been stridently critical of President Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policies and his plans for mass deportations. This episcopal outrage may have less to do with the Catholic…
La humanidad es el único dios totalmente falso. [Humanity is the only totally false god.] — Nicolás Gómez Dávila I Imagine waking up from a coma, or returning from your rest-cure after a nasty bout with Influenza B, and finding…
