America celebrated yesterday the fall of the most disastrous Supreme Court decision in the nation’s history: Roe v. Wade. After nearly 50 years of increasingly unregulated abortion gutted the United States and wiped out almost 64 million unborn Americans, a…
The biblical command to “Go … and teach all nations” provided the inspiration for the creation of Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the country. John Carroll, the Jesuit archbishop who founded the college in 1789, chose a site…
Last Friday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to add guidance for Catholic health care providers on transgender surgeries and hormone treatments. This vote comes after the bishops issued a doctrinal note in March that briefly addressed the…
They say that no news is good news. Often, the opposite is true as well: good news is no news. The Catholic Church often makes headlines — and rightly so — for doing what it shouldn’t be doing. In recent…
As Pride parades gear up around the world, a slew of Catholic parishes will be hosting “Pre-Pride” Masses to kick off the festivities. Among the most popular of these Masses over the last few years in New York City has…
Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was known for insisting on wearing her traditional habit — even when most of the Oblate Sisters of Providence had adopted more modern garb. “I am Sister WIL-HEL-MINA,” she would say. “I’ve a HELL of a WILL,…
As the debate continues to rage over Los Angeles Dodgers’ honoring of the “good works” performed by the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” — a group that has spent the last four decades denigrating Catholic religious nuns by dressing in drag…
During his recent trip to Hungary, Pope Francis addressed one of the most contentious decisions of his pontificate: the restrictions he has made on the Tridentine Mass. For those unfamiliar, the Tridentine Mass is the form of the Catholic liturgy…
As of Wednesday, the Archdiocese of New York is investigating St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan for an art exhibit called “God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey.” The art exhibit by Fordham University student Adah Unachukwu has been installed…
